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author = "Rai, Sunny and
Shelat, Khushi and
Jain, Devansh and
Kishen, Ashwin and
Cho, Young Min and
Redkar, Maitreyi and
Hardikar-Sawant, Samindara and
Ungar, Lyle and
Guntuku, Sharath Chandra",
editor = "Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar and
Dev, Sunipa and
Benotti, Luciana and
Hershcovich, Daniel and
Cao, Yong and
Zhou, Li and
Cabello, Laura and
Adebara, Ife",
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%T Cross-Cultural Differences in Mental Health Expressions on Social Media
%A Rai, Sunny
%A Shelat, Khushi
%A Jain, Devansh
%A Kishen, Ashwin
%A Cho, Young Min
%A Redkar, Maitreyi
%A Hardikar-Sawant, Samindara
%A Ungar, Lyle
%A Guntuku, Sharath Chandra
%Y Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar
%Y Dev, Sunipa
%Y Benotti, Luciana
%Y Hershcovich, Daniel
%Y Cao, Yong
%Y Zhou, Li
%Y Cabello, Laura
%Y Adebara, Ife
%S Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2025)
%D 2025
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Albuquerque, New Mexico
%@ 979-8-89176-237-4
%F rai-etal-2025-cross
%X Culture moderates the way individuals perceive and express mental distress. Current understandings of mental health expressions on social media, however, are predominantly derived from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) contexts. To address this gap, we examine mental health posts on Reddit made by individuals geolocated in India, to identify variations in social media language specific to the Indian context compared to users from Western nations. Our experiments reveal significant psychosocial variations in emotions and temporal orientation. This study demonstrates the potential of social media platforms for identifying cross-cultural differences in mental health expressions (e.g. seeking advice in India vs seeking support by Western users). Significant linguistic variations in online mental health-related language emphasize the importance of developing precision-targeted interventions that are culturally appropriate.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.c3nlp-1.10
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.c3nlp-1.10/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.c3nlp-1.10
%P 132-142
Markdown (Informal)
[Cross-Cultural Differences in Mental Health Expressions on Social Media](https://aclanthology.org/2025.c3nlp-1.10/) (Rai et al., C3NLP 2025)
ACL
- Sunny Rai, Khushi Shelat, Devansh Jain, Ashwin Kishen, Young Min Cho, Maitreyi Redkar, Samindara Hardikar-Sawant, Lyle Ungar, and Sharath Chandra Guntuku. 2025. Cross-Cultural Differences in Mental Health Expressions on Social Media. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2025), pages 132–142, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.