Sharing feelings online: Studying emotional well-being via automated text analysis of Facebook posts

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Settanni, Michele ^a   Marengo, Davide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Aosta University   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyberpsychology; Emotional well being; Psychoinformatics; Psychological assessment; Psychological measurement; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943568882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01045     Document Type: Article

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