Emoticons, Lexical Analysis, Life Satisfaction, & Subjective Health

We are looking at Facebook demographics, emoticon usage, and lexical analysis of Facebook messages to predict life satisfaction and subjective health.

Zero-Order Correlations

Life Satisfaction and Subjective Health

We have the zero-order correlation with SWL (swl.r), p-value (swl.p), correlation with subjective health as a binomial variable (sh.r), and p-value (sh.p). and degrees of freedom (df). If the df is really low, it is because I'm chopping off too many outliers (it's an automated function), so don't trust the estimates. If the df is high, then it should be trustworthy.

## |id    |name                |swl.r   |swl.p  |sh.r    |sh.p  |   df|
## |:-----|:-------------------|:-------|:------|:-------|:-----|----:|
## |df    |Emot10_sad_eastern  |-0.083  |+      |-0.106  |**    |  551|
## |df1   |Emot11_all_emot     |0.142   |***    |0.059   |      |  549|
## |df2   |Emot1_smile         |0.101   |*      |0.050   |      |  551|
## |df3   |Emot3_sad           |0.071   |+      |-0.035  |      |  551|
## |df4   |Emot4_surprise      |-0.000  |       |0.029   |      |  551|
## |df5   |Emot5_love          |-0.040  |       |0.032   |      |  551|
## |df6   |Emot6_wink          |-0.020  |       |0.055   |      |  551|
## |df7   |Emot7_playful       |-0.054  |       |0.001   |      |  551|
## |df8   |Emot8_skeptical     |-0.032  |       |-0.062  |      |  551|
## |df9   |LIWC10_article      |-0.080  |+      |-0.020  |      |  466|
## |df10  |LIWC11_verb         |-0.173  |       |0.231   |      |   16|
## |df11  |LIWC121_social      |-0.290  |*      |0.031   |      |   53|
## |df12  |LIWC122_family      |-0.071  |+      |-0.054  |      |  548|
## |df13  |LIWC123_friend      |0.058   |       |0.014   |      |  551|
## |df14  |LIWC124_humans      |-0.020  |       |0.032   |      |  551|
## |df15  |LIWC125_affect      |-0.031  |       |0.004   |      |  358|
## |df16  |LIWC126_posemo      |0.007   |       |0.015   |      |  442|
## |df17  |LIWC127_negemo      |-0.086  |*      |0.033   |      |  548|
## |df18  |LIWC128_anx         |-0.071  |+      |-0.043  |      |  551|
## |df19  |LIWC129_anger       |-0.064  |       |0.038   |      |  551|
## |df20  |LIWC12_auxverb      |-0.223  |+      |-0.088  |      |   66|
## |df21  |LIWC130_sad         |-0.064  |       |-0.003  |      |  551|
## |df22  |LIWC131_cogmech     |-0.281  |       |0.468   |*     |   18|
## |df23  |LIWC132_insight     |-0.055  |       |0.065   |      |  543|
## |df24  |LIWC133_cause       |-0.076  |+      |0.007   |      |  546|
## |df25  |LIWC134_discrep     |-0.002  |       |0.032   |      |  536|
## |df26  |LIWC135_tentat      |-0.050  |       |0.008   |      |  514|
## |df27  |LIWC136_certain     |-0.021  |       |0.053   |      |  547|
## |df28  |LIWC137_inhib       |-0.022  |       |0.066   |      |  551|
## |df29  |LIWC138_incl        |0.004   |       |0.034   |      |  470|
## |df30  |LIWC139_excl        |0.010   |       |-0.006  |      |  498|
## |df31  |LIWC13_past         |-0.137  |**     |-0.037  |      |  493|
## |df32  |LIWC140_percept     |-0.042  |       |0.052   |      |  545|
## |df33  |LIWC141_see         |-0.001  |       |0.041   |      |  550|
## |df34  |LIWC142_hear        |-0.107  |*      |0.013   |      |  551|
## |df35  |LIWC143_feel        |-0.067  |       |-0.010  |      |  551|
## |df36  |LIWC146_bio         |-0.053  |       |0.024   |      |  548|
## |df37  |LIWC147_body        |-0.067  |       |0.002   |      |  551|
## |df38  |LIWC148_health      |-0.033  |       |-0.015  |      |  551|
## |df39  |LIWC149_sexual      |0.024   |       |0.056   |      |  550|
## |df40  |LIWC14_present      |-0.228  |       |0.219   |      |   41|
## |df41  |LIWC150_ingest      |-0.045  |       |0.043   |      |  551|
## |df42  |LIWC15_future       |0.015   |       |0.033   |      |  546|
## |df43  |LIWC16_adverb       |-0.089  |       |-0.020  |      |  260|
## |df44  |LIWC17_preps        |-0.295  |+      |0.117   |      |   33|
## |df45  |LIWC18_conj         |-0.066  |       |0.004   |      |  253|
## |df46  |LIWC19_negate       |-0.090  |*      |0.038   |      |  540|
## |df47  |LIWC1_funct         |-0.158  |       |0.109   |      |   12|
## |df48  |LIWC20_quant        |-0.059  |       |0.019   |      |  532|
## |df49  |LIWC21_number       |-0.072  |+      |0.047   |      |  551|
## |df50  |LIWC22_swear        |-0.038  |       |0.063   |      |  551|
## |df51  |LIWC250_relativ     |-0.138  |       |0.325   |+     |   23|
## |df52  |LIWC251_motion      |-0.016  |       |0.050   |      |  539|
## |df53  |LIWC252_space       |-0.088  |+      |0.002   |      |  435|
## |df54  |LIWC253_time        |0.007   |       |-0.012  |      |  471|
## |df55  |LIWC2_pronoun       |0.048   |       |0.401   |+     |   16|
## |df56  |LIWC354_work        |0.049   |       |0.104   |**    |  546|
## |df57  |LIWC355_achieve     |-0.061  |       |0.091   |*     |  548|
## |df58  |LIWC356_leisure     |-0.014  |       |0.093   |*     |  551|
## |df59  |LIWC357_home        |-0.002  |       |-0.004  |      |  551|
## |df60  |LIWC358_money       |-0.035  |       |0.034   |      |  549|
## |df61  |LIWC359_relig       |0.012   |       |0.036   |      |  551|
## |df62  |LIWC360_death       |-0.059  |       |0.001   |      |  551|
## |df63  |LIWC3_ppron         |-0.088  |       |0.274   |      |   21|
## |df64  |LIWC462_assent      |-0.033  |       |-0.015  |      |  519|
## |df65  |LIWC463_nonfl       |0.024   |       |0.085   |*     |  551|
## |df66  |LIWC464_filler      |-0.028  |       |0.029   |      |  551|
## |df67  |LIWC4_i             |-0.066  |       |0.041   |      |  182|
## |df68  |LIWC5_we            |0.133   |**     |0.092   |*     |  546|
## |df69  |LIWC6_you           |0.045   |       |0.056   |      |  474|
## |df70  |LIWC7_shehe         |-0.031  |       |-0.089  |*     |  540|
## |df71  |LIWC8_they          |-0.044  |       |-0.013  |      |  550|
## |df72  |LIWC9_ipron         |0.005   |       |0.023   |      |  437|

Multiple Regression

Controlling for gender, ethnicity, age, marital status, income, and education these are the final predictors that are still significant:

Life Satisfaction

This is throwing all FB variables in to predict SWL.

## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = swl.form, data = data)
## 
## Residuals:
##    Min     1Q Median     3Q    Max 
## -3.304 -0.746  0.033  0.773  2.609 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                       Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)           3.28e+00   7.89e-01    4.15  4.0e-05 ***
## genderfemale          4.07e-01   7.38e-01    0.55    0.581    
## gendermale            3.25e-01   7.34e-01    0.44    0.658    
## age_c                -4.39e-01   1.07e-01   -4.10  4.9e-05 ***
## age_sq                5.82e-02   2.91e-02    2.00    0.046 *  
## number_of_likes      -1.84e-04   1.34e-04   -1.37    0.170    
## transitivity          5.73e-01   4.97e-01    1.15    0.250    
## cent_degree_actual   -1.03e-06   1.02e-06   -1.01    0.312    
## cent_betweenness_max  4.18e-10   3.67e-10    1.14    0.255    
## constraint            3.83e-01   6.91e-01    0.55    0.579    
## Emot10_sad_eastern   -2.10e+03   1.12e+03   -1.87    0.063 .  
## Emot11_all_emot      -2.11e+01   6.05e+01   -0.35    0.727    
## Emot1_smile           4.76e+01   6.80e+01    0.70    0.484    
## Emot3_sad             7.49e+01   9.08e+01    0.83    0.410    
## Emot4_surprise       -1.61e+03   7.51e+03   -0.21    0.830    
## Emot5_love           -3.70e+02   1.09e+03   -0.34    0.735    
## Emot6_wink            7.34e+01   2.89e+02    0.25    0.800    
## Emot7_playful        -7.40e+02   7.54e+02   -0.98    0.327    
## Emot8_skeptical      -1.06e+02   1.70e+02   -0.62    0.533    
## LIWC10_article        1.24e+01   1.14e+01    1.10    0.274    
## LIWC11_verb           4.33e-01   2.35e+01    0.02    0.985    
## LIWC121_social       -1.10e+00   1.21e+00   -0.91    0.362    
## LIWC122_family       -1.48e+00   1.10e+01   -0.14    0.892    
## LIWC123_friend        1.26e+02   6.68e+01    1.88    0.060 .  
## LIWC124_humans       -2.25e+01   2.56e+01   -0.88    0.380    
## LIWC125_affect       -4.96e+01   1.30e+02   -0.38    0.703    
## LIWC126_posemo        5.77e+01   1.30e+02    0.44    0.657    
## LIWC127_negemo        9.83e-01   1.36e+02    0.01    0.994    
## LIWC128_anx          -7.99e+01   1.64e+02   -0.49    0.627    
## LIWC129_anger         4.47e+01   6.52e+01    0.69    0.494    
## LIWC12_auxverb        1.12e+01   1.33e+01    0.85    0.397    
## LIWC130_sad           2.87e+01   5.38e+01    0.53    0.594    
## LIWC131_cogmech      -2.62e+01   2.22e+01   -1.18    0.239    
## LIWC132_insight      -2.18e+00   3.10e+01   -0.07    0.944    
## LIWC133_cause         2.17e+01   3.03e+01    0.72    0.473    
## LIWC134_discrep       1.43e+01   2.07e+01    0.69    0.489    
## LIWC135_tentat       -5.01e+00   1.88e+01   -0.27    0.790    
## LIWC136_certain       4.12e+01   3.04e+01    1.35    0.177    
## LIWC137_inhib         6.44e+01   4.92e+01    1.31    0.191    
## LIWC138_incl          1.78e+01   2.84e+01    0.63    0.530    
## LIWC139_excl          2.63e+01   2.34e+01    1.13    0.261    
## LIWC13_past          -1.14e+01   2.35e+01   -0.48    0.629    
## LIWC140_percept       5.88e+01   6.21e+01    0.95    0.345    
## LIWC141_see          -4.45e+01   6.19e+01   -0.72    0.472    
## LIWC142_hear         -4.72e+01   7.45e+01   -0.63    0.527    
## LIWC143_feel         -6.55e+01   6.93e+01   -0.94    0.346    
## LIWC146_bio          -1.08e+02   1.07e+02   -1.01    0.315    
## LIWC147_body          7.57e+01   1.04e+02    0.73    0.465    
## LIWC148_health        1.42e+02   1.11e+02    1.27    0.204    
## LIWC149_sexual        1.16e+02   9.82e+01    1.18    0.239    
## LIWC14_present       -9.63e+00   2.12e+01   -0.45    0.650    
## LIWC150_ingest        9.98e+01   1.14e+02    0.87    0.384    
## LIWC15_future         2.82e+01   3.34e+01    0.85    0.398    
## LIWC16_adverb         1.55e+01   1.20e+01    1.29    0.199    
## LIWC17_preps         -3.92e+00   1.17e+01   -0.34    0.737    
## LIWC18_conj           6.11e+00   1.13e+01    0.54    0.588    
## LIWC19_negate        -1.96e+00   1.24e+01   -0.16    0.874    
## LIWC1_funct          -6.31e+00   8.92e+00   -0.71    0.479    
## LIWC20_quant          7.28e+00   1.96e+01    0.37    0.711    
## LIWC21_number        -1.05e+01   3.23e+01   -0.33    0.745    
## LIWC22_swear         -4.83e+01   6.71e+01   -0.72    0.472    
## LIWC250_relativ       2.19e+01   4.56e+01    0.48    0.631    
## LIWC251_motion       -2.84e+01   4.65e+01   -0.61    0.542    
## LIWC252_space        -1.30e+01   4.75e+01   -0.27    0.784    
## LIWC253_time         -2.69e+01   4.68e+01   -0.57    0.566    
## LIWC2_pronoun         7.74e+04   1.19e+05    0.65    0.516    
## LIWC354_work          7.13e+00   1.03e+01    0.70    0.487    
## LIWC355_achieve      -9.42e+00   2.09e+01   -0.45    0.653    
## LIWC356_leisure       2.64e+01   2.55e+01    1.04    0.301    
## LIWC357_home         -2.09e+01   3.37e+01   -0.62    0.534    
## LIWC358_money         8.66e+00   2.44e+01    0.36    0.723    
## LIWC359_relig        -9.56e-01   4.66e+01   -0.02    0.984    
## LIWC360_death        -7.58e+01   9.79e+01   -0.77    0.439    
## LIWC3_ppron          -8.01e+04   1.19e+05   -0.67    0.500    
## LIWC462_assent       -2.33e+01   9.52e+00   -2.45    0.015 *  
## LIWC463_nonfl         3.03e+01   3.91e+01    0.78    0.439    
## LIWC464_filler       -2.95e+02   2.44e+02   -1.21    0.227    
## LIWC4_i               2.68e+03   1.20e+04    0.22    0.823    
## LIWC5_we              2.72e+03   1.20e+04    0.23    0.820    
## LIWC6_you             2.70e+03   1.20e+04    0.23    0.822    
## LIWC7_shehe           2.71e+03   1.20e+04    0.23    0.821    
## LIWC8_they            2.70e+03   1.20e+04    0.23    0.822    
## LIWC9_ipron          -7.74e+04   1.19e+05   -0.65    0.516    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 1.17 on 470 degrees of freedom
##   (64 observations deleted due to missingness)
## Multiple R-squared:  0.23,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.0961 
## F-statistic: 1.72 on 82 and 470 DF,  p-value: 0.000304

Subjective Health

This is everything predicting health. The last item is the coefficient of discrimination D, which is like an adjusted R-squared for logistic models.

## 
## Call:
## glm(formula = sh.form, family = binomial, data = data)
## 
## Deviance Residuals: 
##    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max  
## -2.310  -0.967   0.524   0.844   2.203  
## 
## Coefficients:
##                       Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)    
## (Intercept)           1.37e+01   8.05e+02    0.02  0.98638    
## genderfemale         -1.56e+01   8.05e+02   -0.02  0.98453    
## gendermale           -1.53e+01   8.05e+02   -0.02  0.98480    
## age_c                -6.10e-01   2.11e-01   -2.89  0.00386 ** 
## age_sq                9.59e-02   5.91e-02    1.62  0.10465    
## number_of_likes      -5.24e-04   2.79e-04   -1.88  0.06054 .  
## transitivity          3.76e+00   1.01e+00    3.71  0.00021 ***
## cent_degree_actual    1.49e-06   2.11e-06    0.70  0.48162    
## cent_betweenness_max -2.69e-10   6.73e-10   -0.40  0.68934    
## constraint            4.80e-01   1.54e+00    0.31  0.75465    
## Emot10_sad_eastern   -8.97e+03   3.46e+03   -2.60  0.00944 ** 
## Emot11_all_emot       1.69e+02   1.23e+02    1.38  0.16671    
## Emot1_smile          -1.09e+02   1.35e+02   -0.81  0.41885    
## Emot3_sad            -4.52e+02   2.03e+02   -2.23  0.02589 *  
## Emot4_surprise        9.46e+04   9.06e+06    0.01  0.99167    
## Emot5_love            2.69e+03   2.46e+03    1.09  0.27550    
## Emot6_wink            1.12e+03   9.45e+02    1.18  0.23728    
## Emot7_playful        -5.02e+02   1.60e+03   -0.31  0.75353    
## Emot8_skeptical      -8.06e+02   5.95e+02   -1.35  0.17562    
## LIWC10_article       -8.07e+00   2.47e+01   -0.33  0.74340    
## LIWC11_verb           5.51e+01   4.91e+01    1.12  0.26172    
## LIWC121_social        1.34e+00   1.22e+00    1.10  0.27279    
## LIWC122_family       -5.43e+01   4.51e+01   -1.20  0.22837    
## LIWC123_friend       -1.09e+02   1.46e+02   -0.75  0.45526    
## LIWC124_humans        2.03e+01   4.33e+01    0.47  0.63841    
## LIWC125_affect       -7.14e+00   2.02e+02   -0.04  0.97189    
## LIWC126_posemo        5.55e+01   2.02e+02    0.28  0.78331    
## LIWC127_negemo       -1.08e+01   2.21e+02   -0.05  0.96085    
## LIWC128_anx          -2.49e+02   3.19e+02   -0.78  0.43502    
## LIWC129_anger         1.84e+01   1.48e+02    0.12  0.90130    
## LIWC12_auxverb       -2.74e+01   2.71e+01   -1.01  0.31275    
## LIWC130_sad           5.16e+00   1.30e+02    0.04  0.96838    
## LIWC131_cogmech      -1.61e+01   4.72e+01   -0.34  0.73353    
## LIWC132_insight       2.57e+01   6.12e+01    0.42  0.67524    
## LIWC133_cause        -6.47e+01   5.77e+01   -1.12  0.26220    
## LIWC134_discrep      -7.06e+01   4.89e+01   -1.44  0.14897    
## LIWC135_tentat        6.96e+00   4.00e+01    0.17  0.86170    
## LIWC136_certain      -8.09e+01   6.70e+01   -1.21  0.22748    
## LIWC137_inhib         1.50e+02   1.14e+02    1.31  0.18853    
## LIWC138_incl          6.60e+01   5.84e+01    1.13  0.25816    
## LIWC139_excl         -3.14e+01   4.55e+01   -0.69  0.49058    
## LIWC13_past          -3.27e+01   4.90e+01   -0.67  0.50459    
## LIWC140_percept      -6.93e+01   1.29e+02   -0.54  0.59037    
## LIWC141_see           1.38e+02   1.29e+02    1.07  0.28543    
## LIWC142_hear          1.93e+01   1.58e+02    0.12  0.90243    
## LIWC143_feel          1.38e+01   1.44e+02    0.10  0.92342    
## LIWC146_bio          -4.66e+02   2.18e+02   -2.14  0.03209 *  
## LIWC147_body          4.09e+02   2.06e+02    1.98  0.04718 *  
## LIWC148_health        2.90e+02   2.23e+02    1.30  0.19310    
## LIWC149_sexual        3.49e+02   2.04e+02    1.71  0.08816 .  
## LIWC14_present       -4.37e+01   4.39e+01   -1.00  0.31963    
## LIWC150_ingest        6.74e+02   2.31e+02    2.93  0.00344 ** 
## LIWC15_future         1.19e+01   6.75e+01    0.18  0.85979    
## LIWC16_adverb         6.07e+00   2.50e+01    0.24  0.80802    
## LIWC17_preps         -6.11e+00   2.40e+01   -0.25  0.79873    
## LIWC18_conj          -1.05e+01   2.39e+01   -0.44  0.66134    
## LIWC19_negate         6.66e+01   2.78e+01    2.39  0.01663 *  
## LIWC1_funct          -3.06e+00   1.85e+01   -0.16  0.86902    
## LIWC20_quant          3.31e+01   4.01e+01    0.83  0.40931    
## LIWC21_number        -1.99e+01   6.81e+01   -0.29  0.77030    
## LIWC22_swear          2.32e+01   1.47e+02    0.16  0.87457    
## LIWC250_relativ      -2.78e+01   9.91e+01   -0.28  0.77948    
## LIWC251_motion       -4.66e+00   1.04e+02   -0.04  0.96412    
## LIWC252_space         2.07e+01   1.03e+02    0.20  0.83996    
## LIWC253_time          3.11e+01   1.00e+02    0.31  0.75583    
## LIWC2_pronoun         4.19e+05   2.48e+05    1.69  0.09043 .  
## LIWC354_work         -3.36e+01   2.11e+01   -1.59  0.11148    
## LIWC355_achieve       6.95e+01   4.59e+01    1.51  0.13014    
## LIWC356_leisure       2.30e+01   5.25e+01    0.44  0.66047    
## LIWC357_home         -9.66e+01   7.20e+01   -1.34  0.17991    
## LIWC358_money         9.48e+00   4.81e+01    0.20  0.84390    
## LIWC359_relig         8.13e+01   1.02e+02    0.80  0.42402    
## LIWC360_death        -8.20e+00   1.91e+02   -0.04  0.96570    
## LIWC3_ppron          -4.31e+05   2.46e+05   -1.75  0.08022 .  
## LIWC462_assent       -7.09e+01   2.16e+01   -3.28  0.00104 ** 
## LIWC463_nonfl         5.14e+01   7.68e+01    0.67  0.50338    
## LIWC464_filler        3.34e+02   5.14e+02    0.65  0.51576    
## LIWC4_i               1.19e+04   2.23e+04    0.54  0.59186    
## LIWC5_we              1.19e+04   2.23e+04    0.54  0.59147    
## LIWC6_you             1.19e+04   2.23e+04    0.54  0.59239    
## LIWC7_shehe           1.19e+04   2.23e+04    0.53  0.59328    
## LIWC8_they            1.19e+04   2.23e+04    0.53  0.59296    
## LIWC9_ipron          -4.19e+05   2.48e+05   -1.69  0.09046 .  
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## (Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)
## 
##     Null deviance: 796.51  on 616  degrees of freedom
## Residual deviance: 646.30  on 534  degrees of freedom
## AIC: 812.3
## 
## Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 14
## 
## R-square measures and the coefficient of discrimination, 'D':
## 
##   R2mod R2res R2cor      D
##  0.2216 0.218 0.218 0.2198
## 
## Number of binomial observations:  617
## Number of binary observation:  617
## Average group size:  1