Abstract:The widespread adoption of social media has heightened interest in its psychological effects, particularly on mental health indicators such as anxiety, depression, loneliness, and sleep quality, as these platforms increasingly influence social interactions and well-being. Although previous research has examined correlations between social media use and mental health, few studies have utilized unsupervised machine learning to segment users based on behavioral and psychological patterns, leaving a gap in identifying distinct risk profiles across diverse groups. This study seeks to address this by segmenting individuals according to their social media usage and psychological well-being, employing clustering to reveal hidden patterns and evaluate their mental health implications. Data from 551 participants, collected via an online survey, were preprocessed using KNN imputation for missing values, one-hot encoding for categorical variables like Gender with 5 unique values, and outlier detection via IQR and Z-score methods. K-Means clustering, optimized at 6 clusters using the Elbow Method and a Silhouette Score of 0.32, was applied, with PCA reducing 22 dimensions for visualization and a correlation heatmap highlighting relationships, such as a 0.28 correlation between social media hours and anxiety.
| Comments: | 13 pages, 5 figures, International Conference on Advancement in Healthcare Technology and Biomedical Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2604.24611 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2604.24611v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.24611 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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