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Graduate admissions stress disclosures linked to increased anxiety on Reddit

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A new study published on arXiv analyzed over 170,000 posts and 1.1 million comments from two Reddit communities related to graduate admissions. The research found that users who engaged with posts disclosing distress during their application preparation subsequently showed higher levels of anxiety, depression, and stress expression. These users also exhibited increased commenting activity and lexical redundancy in their own posts. However, the study did not find similar psychosocial effects among users who only interacted with those who had previously been exposed to distress disclosures, suggesting a distinction between direct engagement with distress and subsequent social contact. AI

IMPACT Highlights the potential negative psychosocial impact of exposure to distress in online communities, relevant for platform design and user wellbeing.

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Graduate admissions stress disclosures linked to increased anxiety on Reddit

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Veda Duddu, Agam Goyal, Sabelle Huang, Ayush Umashankar Prasad, Mingquan Yi, Koustuv Saha ·

    Secondhand Stress: How Stressful Disclosures Affect Psychosocial Wellbeing in Online Graduate Admissions Communities

    arXiv:2610.22657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online communities provide spaces for individuals navigating stressful life transitions to disclose difficulties and seek peer support. Yet encountering others' distress may also have psychosocial implications for community members.…

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