"Help! I need some music!": Analysing music discourse & depression on Reddit.

ABSTRACT: Individuals choose varying music listening strategies to fulfill particular mood-regulation goals. However, ineffective musical choices and a lack of cognizance of the effects thereof can be detrimental to their well-being and may lead to adverse outcomes like anxiety or depression. In our study, we use the social media platform Reddit to perform a large-scale analysis to unearth the several music-mediated mood-regulation goals that individuals opt for in the context of depression. A mixed-methods approach involving natural language processing techniques followed by qualitative analysis was performed on all music-related posts to identify the various music-listening strategies and group them into healthy and unhealthy associations. Analysis of the music content (acoustic features and lyric

SUBMITTER: Singh B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10359011 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature