Touted to be the first study of its kind that looks at the mental health of smartphone users and how they handle and express their emotions using emojis during conversations, the experts conclude that “expressing emotions with emojis was associated with subjective well-being, whereas managing emotions with emojis was weakly associated with depressive symptoms.”
However, there are drawbacks of the research that keep it from becoming a global behavioral analysis of smartphone users who engage with emojis.
For example, the Simeji keyboard that was assessed as part of the study is far from the most popular keyboard app out there, regardless of the mobile platform. Second, an overwhelming number of study participants were women, which according to the research paper, not only raises a gender bias red flag, but also fails to address the visibly different nature of emoji usage by both genders in different emotional states.
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