%0 Journal Article
%@ 1438-8871
%I JMIR Publications
%V 27
%N 
%P e63407
%T The Mediating Role of Meaning-Making in the Relationship Between Mental Time Travel and Positive Emotions in Stress-Related Blogs: Big Data Text Analysis Research
%A Chen,Yidi
%A Zheng,Lei
%A Ma,Jinjin
%A Zhu,Huanya
%A Gan,Yiqun
%+ School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, No. 35 Qinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, China, 86 01062336834, ydchen@bjfu.edu.cn
%K stress
%K meaning-making
%K mental time travel
%K big data
%K mini meta-analysis
%K text analysis
%K coping mechanisim
%K Weibo
%K post
%K web crawler
%K positive emotion
%K emotion
%K meta-analysis
%K anxiety
%K depression
%K mental health
%K ecological momentary assessment
%K EMA
%K stress model
%K natural language processing
%K NLP
%D 2025
%7 21.2.2025
%9 Original Paper
%J J Med Internet Res
%G English
%X Background: Given the ubiquity of stress, a key focus of stress research is exploring how to better coexist with stress. Objective: This study conducted text analysis on stress-related Weibo posts using a web crawler to investigate whether these posts contained positive emotions, as well as elements of mental time travel and meaning-making. A mediation model of mental time travel, meaning-making, and positive emotions was constructed to examine whether meaning-making triggered by mental time travel can foster positive emotions under stress. Methods: Using Python 3.8, the original public data from active Weibo users were crawled, yielding 331,711 stress-related posts. To avoid false positives, these posts were randomly divided into two large samples for cross-validation (sample 1: n=165,374; sample 2: n=166,337). Google’s natural language processing application programming interface was used for word segmentation, followed by text and mediation analysis using the Chinese psychological analysis system “Wenxin.” A mini–meta-analysis of the mediation path coefficients was conducted. Text analysis identified mental time travel words, meaning-making words, and positive emotion words in stress-related posts. Results: The constructed mediation model of mental time travel words (time words), meaning-making words (causal and insightful words), and positive poststress emotions validated positive adaptation following stress. A mini–meta-analysis of two different mediation models constructed in the two subsamples indicated a stable mediation effect across the 2 random subsamples. The combined effect size (B) obtained was .013 (SE 0.003, 95% CI 0.007-0.018; P<.001), demonstrating that meaning-making triggered by mental time travel in stress-related blog posts can predict positive emotions under stress. Conclusions: Individuals can adapt positively to stress by engaging in meaning-making processes that are triggered by mental time travel and reflected in their social media posts. The study’s mediation model confirmed that mental time travel leads to meaning-making, which fosters positive emotional responses to stress. Mental time travel serves as a psychological strategy to facilitate positive adaptation to stressful situations. 
%M 39900590
%R 10.2196/63407
%U https://www.jmir.org/2025/1/e63407
%U https://doi.org/10.2196/63407
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39900590