Social media and mental health in democracy movement in Hong Kong: A population-based study

Lau, Kam Man; Hou, Wai Kai; Hall, Brian J.; Canetti, Daphna; Ng, Sin Man; Lam, Agnes Iok Fong; Hobfoll, Stevan E.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.07.028

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“…We found that a substantial proportion of people reported significant anxiety and depressive symptoms immediately following the Umbrella Movement and that these symptoms were predicted by loss of personal and social resources (Hou et al, 2015). In our second study (Lau et al, 2016), we looked specifically at how the loss of social connectedness on social media, and demographic moderators, affected anxiety and depressive symptoms. Loss of social connectedness on social media was found to be associated with higher depressive symptoms only among middle-aged and older adults, but not younger ones.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More detailed descriptions and references for previous studies indicating scale validity and reliability could be found in our previous studies (Hou et al, 2015;Lau et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Details on the inclusion criteria of participant recruitment, the procedure of using a Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) for recruitment, and the demographic characteristics of the current population-representative sample of 1,208 Hong Kong Chinese citizen could be found in our previous studies (Hou et al, 2015;Lau et al, 2016).…”

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“…We have conducted two previous studies which also applied the COR theory to the same dataset and the same measurements of anxiety and depressive symptoms (Hou et al, 2015;Lau et al, 2016). The first study of the series (Hou et al, 2015), sought to demonstrate the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and their predictors immediately following political upheaval.…”

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What predicts threat perceptions toward people opposing to the government? A population-based study following Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong

Hou¹,

Canetti

Wah

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J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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We examined the incidence and predictors of threat perceptions toward people who oppose government action (i.e., protestors) following the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong (September 28th to December 15th, 2014). A population-representative sample of 1,208 citizens (mean age = 46.89 years; 52.4% female) was recruited two months after the conclusion of the Movement using random digit dialing. Upon giving their informed consent, respondents reported sociodemographics, perceived threats of protestors to the prospects of democracy, ways of life, and the economy, anxiety symptoms (STAI), and depressive symptoms (PHQ-9). More than half disagreed that protestors threatened the prospects of democracy (54.7%, 95% CI = .52, .57), ways of life (52.2%, 95% CI = .49, .55), and the economy (51.4%, 95% CI = .49, .54). Regression analyses revealed that male sex was associated with lower odds of perceiving threats to the prospects of democracy and ways of life. Being unmarried was associated with lower odds of perceiving threats to the economy. Secondary education level and depressive symptoms were associated with higher odds of perceiving threats to ways of life and the economy, respectively. This is one of the first population-based studies that measured socioeconomic and mental health correlates of political attitudes immediately following pro-democracy movements.

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“…More detailed descriptions and references for previous studies indicating scale validity and reliability could be found in our previous studies (Hou et al, 2015;Lau et al, 2016).…”

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What predicts threat perceptions toward people opposing to the government? A population-based study following Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong

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Wah

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“…Social media permits the interchange and establishment of usergenerated content (UGC) and it is described as a set of web-based program that was established on the technological and ideological basis of Web 2.0 [1]. It is also known as a group of new media that permit social interaction between users [2] and it is undeniably a vital part in social and political developments [3]. People are allowed to spread data, opinions, statements and behavior via the social media [4].…”

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Visualization of Crime News Sentiment in Facebook

Haron¹,

Abidin²,

Zamani³

et al. 2018

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Facebook has become a popular platform in communicating information. People can express their opinions using texts, symbols, pictures and emoticons via Facebook posts and comments. These expressions allow sentiment analysis to be performed by collecting the data to obtain the public's opinions and emotions toward certain issues. Due to a huge amount of data obtained from Facebook, proper approaches are required to cater the texts and symbols used in the comments. There are also limited amount of dictionary on Malay texts which make it more challenging to process and classify the positive and negative words used in the comments. Thus, hybrid approach is applied during the data processing to visualize the results. In this work, a combination of lexicon-based approach and Naïve Bayes are used. This study focuses on analyzing the public's sentiments on crime news in Facebook by using word cloud visualization. The visualization displays important words used in a form of a word cloud. Moreover, the percentage of positive and negative words existed in the comments is also shown as part of the visualization results.

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