arXiv cs.CL· Veda Duddu, Agam Goyal, Sabelle Huang, Ayush Umashankar Prasad, Mingquan Yi, Koustuv Saha·· 12 小时前AI 评分24
二手压力：研究生申请社区中的压力披露如何影响心理健康
Secondhand Stress: How Stressful Disclosures Affect Psychosocial Wellbeing in Online Graduate Admissions Communities
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一项基于两个 Reddit 社区、三个申请季共 171,981 条帖子和 1,130,413 条评论的研究发现，在申请准备阶段接触他人压力披露的用户，其后表现出更高的分类器估计焦虑、抑郁和压力表达水平，评论活动与词汇冗余度也更高。
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Abstract:Online communities provide spaces for individuals navigating stressful life transitions to disclose difficulties and seek peer support. Yet encountering others' distress may also have psychosocial implications for community members. Drawing on stress crossover theory, we examine how engagement with peer distress during graduate admissions is associated with subsequent psychosocial expression and participation, and whether similar associations extend through downstream interactions. We analyze 171,981 posts and 1,130,413 comments from two Reddit communities across three admissions cycles, using propensity-score stratification and baseline-adjusted comparisons. Users who engaged with distress disclosures during application preparation subsequently exhibited higher classifier-estimated anxiety, depression, and stress expression, alongside greater commenting activity and lexical redundancy. These associations recurred across admissions cycles, while no significant psychosocial associations were detected among downstream respondents interacting with previously exposed users. Our findings highlight how greater distress-related expression can coexist with continued community participation, while distinguishing direct engagement with distress disclosures from subsequent social contact. We discuss implications for designing online communities that preserve opportunities for self-disclosure and peer support while remaining attentive to the experiences of those encountering distress-related content.
| Comments: | Preprint: 22 pages, 15 tables |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.22657 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2610.22657v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.22657 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Agam Goyal [view email]
[v1]
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:20:23 UTC (237 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.CL · arxiv.org