Building a profile of subjective well-being for social media users

Lushi Chen, Tao Gong, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell and Robert L Davidson

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: Subjective well-being includes ‘affect’ and ‘satisfaction with life’ (SWL). This study proposes a unified approach to construct a profile of subjective well-being based on social media language in Facebook status updates. We apply sentiment analysis to generate users’ affect scores, and train a random forest model to predict SWL using affect scores and other language features of the status updates. Results show that: the computer-selected features resemble the key predictors of SWL as identified in early studies; the machine-predicted SWL is moderately correlated with the self-reported SWL (r = 0.36, p

Date: 2017
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