The social NLP research community witness a recent surge in the computational
advancements of mental health analysis to build responsible AI models for a
complex interplay between language use and self-perception. Such responsible AI
models aid in quantifying the psychological concepts from user-penned texts on
social media. On thinking beyond the low-level (classification) task, we
advance the existing binary classification dataset, towards a higher-level task
of reliability analysis through the lens of explanations, posing it as one of
the safety measures. We annotate the LoST dataset to capture nuanced textual
cues that suggest the presence of low self-esteem in the posts of Reddit users.
We further state that the NLP models developed for determining the presence of
low self-esteem, focus more on three types of textual cues: (i) Trigger: words
that triggers mental disturbance, (ii) LoST indicators: text indicators
emphasizing low self-esteem, and (iii) Consequences: words describing the
consequences of mental disturbance. We implement existing classifiers to
examine the attention mechanism in pre-trained language models (PLMs) for a
domain-specific psychology-grounded task. Our findings suggest the need of
shifting the focus of PLMs from Trigger and Consequences to a more
comprehensive explanation, emphasizing LoST indicators while determining low
self-esteem in Reddit posts.

社交 NLP 研究社区近期在心理健康分析的计算进展中见证了构建负责任的 AI 模型，以应对语言使用和自我认知之间的复杂相互作用。我们通过注释 LoST 数据集捕捉到 Reddit 用户帖子中表明低自尊的微妙文本线索，并发现 NLP 模型在确定低自尊时更关注三种类型的文本线索：触发词、LoST 指标和后果词。我们的研究结果表明，在 Reddit 帖子中确定低自尊时，需要将 PLMs 的重点从触发词和后果词转移到更全面的解释上，强调 LoST 指标。