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Area of Science:

Computational Social Science
Digital Mental Health
Infodemiology

Background:

Social media significantly impacts emotions and anxiety, but measuring its effect on social stress is challenging.
Existing methods struggle to quantify real-time social stress dynamics influenced by online interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and validate the Social Stress Indicator (SSI), a computational tool for real-time social stress quantification.
To assess SSI's alignment with expert-labeled social stress scores and its predictive capabilities.

Main Methods:

Developed the Social Stress Indicator (SSI) by integrating sentiment analysis (SA), subjectivity (SUB), and information seeking behavior (ISB).
Validated SSI against an expert-labeled Social Stress Score (SSS) using synthetic data.
Employed Bland-Altman analysis and causality tests for validation.

Main Results:

SSI demonstrated moderate alignment with SSS but tended to underestimate stress levels, particularly during high-intensity events.
Bland-Altman analysis revealed a negative bias, indicating SSI's limitations in capturing extreme stress.
Causality tests confirmed SSI's predictive power for stress-related trends.

Conclusions:

The Social Stress Indicator (SSI) shows feasibility for large-scale, real-time social stress tracking and advances infodemic intelligence.
Refinements are needed to enhance sensitivity to extreme stressors and incorporate contextual signals for improved accuracy.
SSI has potential implications for mental health monitoring, policy-making, and digital governance.