Research on Emotional Support Provided by Online Community

Abstract

Psychological studies have demonstrated that, like physical help, emotional support can hasten the grieving process. My selected area of study is how the /r/petloss forum of the internet Reddit community can support people going through the mourning process of losing a pet emotionally. I mostly looked into two issues. First, whether grievers can get emotional support in internet networks. In order to determine whether the six most popular posts offered emotional support to people who were in need of assistance and those who were experiencing distress, I looked at and recorded the psychological changes of the posters themselves as well as the number of encouraging comments and replies each post received. Second, what practices are the majority in the neighborhood among mourners? Write lengthy articles, brief videos, or other? I looked for 15 mourning postings and organized the data in Word and Excel to list the six most popular posts so I could monitor how each mourned. Two sections make up the majority of the conclusion. The first finding is that mourners might receive emotional assistance from online networks in the form of inspiration and consolation. The second conclusion is that, because lengthy words are better able to capture people's inner selves, writing long words is the most typical approach for people to communicate their grief after losing a pet.