Insights from an expressive writing intervention on Facebook to help alleviate depressive symptoms
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Highlights：
• We developed a web-based intervention platform for expressive writing.
• Emotional and cognitive words on intervention were related to recovery of depression.
• Previous writing tendency may affect the choice of words during intervention.
• The platform is effective to people who are familiar with expressing emotions on OSNs.
• This study helps understand the beneficial effects of web-based expressive writing.
摘要
•We developed a web-based intervention platform for expressive writing.•Emotional and cognitive words on intervention were related to recovery of depression.•Previous writing tendency may affect the choice of words during intervention.•The platform is effective to people who are familiar with expressing emotions on OSNs.•This study helps understand the beneficial effects of web-based expressive writing.
论文关键词：Facebook,Depression,Expressive writing,Sentiment analysis,Web application
论文评审过程：Received 18 February 2016, Revised 12 April 2016, Accepted 19 April 2016, Available online 27 April 2016, Version of Record 27 April 2016.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.04.034
