Zero-shot classification of concern topics showed no consistent evidence of association with wearable outcomes, while affective dimensions showed more associations that did not survive correction¶

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Evidence · 2 studies · 2 associational r2 · q2
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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Zero-shot classification of concern topics showed no consistent evidence of association with wearable outcomes. → topic-null q2 i? Affective dimensions across all three methods showed more associations than topical content, though these did not survive correction for multiple comparisons, offering preliminary evidence that emotional register may carry more signal than topical content. → affective-more

Evidence¶

topic-null¶

Tamunotonye Harry, Johanna Hidalgo, Matthew Price, Yuanyuan Feng, Kathryn Stanton, Connie Tompkins, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Mikaela Irene Fudolig, Laura Bloomfield, and Christopher Danforth. 2026. A Formative Study of Brief Affective Text as a Complement to Wearable Sensing for Longitudinal Student Health Monitoring. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 10, 4, Article 219 (December 2026). https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14360 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.14360

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Zero-shot domain classification (facebook/bart-large-mnli against nine candidate domain labels) entered as continuous predictors in within-person mixed-effects models of the nine wearable outcomes. The article reports "Zero-shot classification of concern topics showed no consistent evidence of association with outcomes". No effect sizes are printed.

"Zero-shot classification of concern topics showed no consistent evidence of association with outcomes;"

affective-more¶

Tamunotonye Harry, Johanna Hidalgo, Matthew Price, Yuanyuan Feng, Kathryn Stanton, Connie Tompkins, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Mikaela Irene Fudolig, Laura Bloomfield, and Christopher Danforth. 2026. A Formative Study of Brief Affective Text as a Complement to Wearable Sensing for Longitudinal Student Health Monitoring. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 10, 4, Article 219 (December 2026). https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14360

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Cross-method comparison of affective features (SEANCE, RoBERTa-base, MentalRoBERTa) against zero-shot topical domain probabilities in the same within-person models. The article states "affective dimensions across all three methods showed more associations" than topics, but "these did not survive correction for multiple comparisons". No effect sizes are printed.

"affective dimensions across all three methods showed more associations, though these did not survive correction for multiple comparisons, offering preliminary evidence that emotional register may carry more signal than topical content."

Discussion¶

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