The Emotional Impact of COVID-19 News Reporting: A Longitudinal Study Using Natural Language Processing

Table 8

BBC news (UK) tweet and user tweet dataset descriptives, by epoch.

Emotion	Epoch	BBC news tweets		Corresponding user tweets
			Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)
Anger	1	670	.176 (.005)	34054	.487 (.002)
	2	2463	.176 (.004)	184954	.507 (.0008)
	3	1841	.184 (.004)	133330	.516 (.0009)
	4	4533	.204 (.003)	399359	.524 (.0005)
Joy	1	670	.089 (.005)	34054	.117 (.001)
	2	2463	.102 (.003)	184954	.127 (.0006)
	3	1841	.109 (.004)	133330	.127 (.0007)
	4	4533	.124 (.003)	399359	.120 (.0004)
Optimism	1	670	.154 (.007)	34054	.145 (.001)
	2	2463	.171 (.004)	184954	.139 (.0005)
	3	1841	.163 (.004)	133330	.138 (.0005)
	4	4533	.226 (.003)	399359	.140 (.0003)
Sadness	1	670	.251(.010)	34054	.251 (.001)
	2	2463	.285 (.006)	184954	.226 (.0006)
	3	1841	.277 (.006)	133330	.219 (.0007)
	4	4533	.291 (.004)	399359	.216 (.0004)