Abstract:When studying how mental illness may be reflected in people's social media use, content not written by the users is often ignored, because it might not reflect their own emotions. In this paper, we examine whether the mood of quotes posted on Facebook is affected by underlying symptoms of depression. We extracted quotes and song lyrics from the feeds of 781 Facebook users from the MyPersonality database who had also completed the the CES-D depression scale. We found that participants with elevated depressive s… Show more
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