Does Passive Social Media Use Harm Well-Being?

Does personal social media usage affect efficiency and well-being?

Sensing Subjective Well-Being from Social Media

Subjective Well-being(SWB), which refers to how people experience the quality of their lives, is of great use to public policy-makers as well as economic, sociological research, etc. Traditionally, the measurement of SWB relies on time-consuming and costly self-report questionnaires. Nowadays, people are motivated to share their experiences and feelings on social media, so we propose to sense S...

Predicting Individual Well-Being Through the Language of Social Media

We present the task of predicting individual well-being, as measured by a life satisfaction scale, through the language people use on social media. Well-being, which encompasses much more than emotion and mood, is linked with good mental and physical health. The ability to quickly and accurately assess it can supplement multi-million dollar national surveys as well as promote whole body health....

Well - Being and Social Capital : Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle ?

Well-Being and Social Capital: Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle? John F. Helliwell Abstract This paper has a double purpose: to see how well Durkheim’s (1897) findings apply a century later, and to see if the beneficial effects of social capital on suicide prevention are parallel to those already found for subjective well-being (Helliwell 2003). In the life satisfaction and social capital data, Scand...

Does social exclusion influence multiple channel use? The interconnections with community, happiness, and well-being

Article history: Received 1 June 2014 Received in revised form 1 February 2015 Accepted 1 August 2015 Available online xxxx