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SUBMITTER: Chen L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5685571 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20171114 11
Subjective well-being includes 'affect' and 'satisfaction with life' (SWL). This study proposes a unified approach to construct a profile of subjective well-being based on social media language in Facebook status updates. We apply sentiment analysis to generate users' affect scores, and train a random forest model to predict SWL using affect scores and other language features of the status updates. Results show that: the computer-selected features resemble the key predictors of SWL as identified ...[more]