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Table 2 Sentiment analysis with the 15 most common feelings

From: Mental health-related communication in a virtual community: text mining analysis of a digital exchange platform during the Covid-19 pandemic

Negative

N (%)

Weighting*

Positive

N (%)

Weighting*

anxiety

98 (7)

− 0.514

good

396 (10)

0.372

crisis

82 (6)

−0.362

help

156 (4)

0.373

difficult

64 (4)

−0.025

simple

150 (4)

0.004

unfortunately

53 (4)

−0.479

important

116 (3)

0.382

problem

45 (3)

−0.387

look forward

82 (2)

0.220

small

44 (3)

−0.272

secure

78 (2)

0.004

short

30 (2)

−0.001

exactly

78 (2)

0.004

challenge

28 (2)

−0.001

experience

73 (2)

0.004

difficult

27 (2)

−0.001

current

60 (2)

0.004

resist

26 (2)

−0.001

understand

56 (1)

0.096

bad

26 (2)

−0.771

new

56 (1)

0.004

old

24 (2)

−0.001

know

54 (1)

0.004

lack

22 (2)

−0.537

hope

54 (1)

0.232

worry

21 (1)

−0.362

super

53 (1)

0.501

loneliness

21 (1)

−0.339

learn

42 (1)

0.250

  1. *Weighting calculated as Pointwise Mutual Information [15]