Objective:

On 6 March 2018, the Cleveland Cavaliers power forward Kevin Love penned an op-ed for The Players’ Tribune. In big, bold letters, the title, ‘Everyone Is Going Through Something’ gave way to his proclamation of personal mental health struggles. This study assessed the impact of Love’s personal mental health testimony on the audience.

Design:

Content analysis of Instagram user’s responses to Love’s 2018 announcement of panic disorder.

Setting:

Data were collected on 19 June 2018. Comments on Love’s post were manually copied into an Excel spreadsheet. Due to Instagram’s ‘top comments’ and ‘newest first’ algorithms that determine both the visibility and order of user responses, not all comments were accessible for analysis. A total of 1,234 comments served as the sample.

Method:

Two trained coders analysed the comments for exhibitions of audience involvement with Love, emotional responses and perceptions of social biases surrounding mental illness.

Results:

Social media users who expressed hope were more likely to share their own mental health experiences. In addition, users who expressed hope were significantly more likely to mention wanting to reduce social bias surrounding discussion of mental health than posts without hope.

Conclusion:

Building on previous work that determined social media users can respond to a celebrity’s physical health testimonial with positive, future-oriented emotions, this study established that the same response can exist when analysing a celebrity’s mental health testimonial.

中文翻译：

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爱与篮球：观众对职业运动员心理健康宣告的反应

客观的：

2018年3月6日，克利夫兰骑士队的大前锋凯文·洛夫（Kevin Love）为《球员论坛报》撰稿。在大胆的大写字母中，“每个人都在经历着什么”这个标题让他宣告了个人的精神健康斗争。这项研究评估了Love的个人心理健康证词对听众的影响。

设计：

Instagram用户对Love在2018年宣布的恐慌症的回应的内容分析。

环境：

数据于2018年6月19日收集。对Love帖子的评论已手动复制到Excel电子表格中。由于Instagram的“热门评论”和“最新优先”算法确定了用户响应的可见性和顺序，因此并非所有评论都可用于分析。总共1,234条评论用作样本。

方法：

两名训练有素的编码员分析了观众对爱的参与，情感反应以及对围绕精神疾病的社会偏见的理解的展览评论。

结果：

表示希望的社交媒体用户更有可能分享自己的心理健康经验。此外，表达希望的用户比没有希望的帖子更有可能提及要减少围绕心理健康讨论的社会偏见。

结论：

在确定社交媒体用户可以以积极的，面向未来的情绪来回应名人的身体健康证明的先前工作的基础上，本研究确定了分析名人的心理健康证明时可以存在相同的回答。