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Table 5 Differences in emotion and sentiment proportions expressed by military and control users between 2011-2014 aggregated over 6 points of interest

From: Uncovering the relationships between military community health and affects expressed in social media

Affect

Control Users

Military Users

Mean

St. Dev.

Mean

St. Dev.

anger

0.014

0.006

0.016↑

0.007

disgust

0.092

0.029

0.096↑

0.028

fear

0.090

0.024

0.093↑

0.024

joy

0.594↑

0.053

0.587

0.050

surprise

0.096↑

0.023

0.094

0.026

negative

0.313

0.060

0.328↑

0.062

neutral

0.411↑

0.068

0.394

0.067

  1. We only report affect proportion means averaged over military and control users that are statistically significantly different (non-significant differences for sadness emotion and positive sentiment are not reported). We mark affects expressed more↑ by military or control users. We control false positive (FP) discovery rate by applying Benjamini-Hochberg correction with critical value for a FP discovery rate of 0.1.