Many Ways to be Lonely: Fine-grained Characterization of Loneliness and its Potential Changes in COVID-19. (arXiv:2201.07423v1 [cs.CL])

Loneliness has been associated with negative outcomes for physical and mental
health. Understanding how people express and cope with various forms of
loneliness is critical for early screening and targeted interventions to reduce
loneliness, particularly among vulnerable groups such as young adults. To
examine how different forms of loneliness and coping strategies manifest in
loneliness self-disclosure, we built a dataset, FIG-Loneliness (FIne-Grained
Loneliness) by using Reddit posts in two young adult-focused forums and two
loneliness related forums consisting of a …

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