2022 International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Communication Systems (ICKES)
Big Data Driven Mental Health Assessment Model
for College Students
1st Zhu Min
Guangzhou City Polytechnic
Guangdong Guangzhou,510405,China
zhm@gcp.edu.cn
Abstract—The big data-driven mental health assessment
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model for college students is a new concept, which will be used
to assess the mental health of college students. This is an open
source project and anyone can contribute to it. Our goal is to
provide a platform for researchers, practitioners and students
interested in learning more about big data-driven mental health
assessment models for college students. The big data-driven
mental health assessment model for college students is a
research-based tool that can be used to assess the mental health
of college students. The results of this assessment will help to
understand the degree of stress and anxiety of college students,
their coping strategies and emotional status. It will also help to
provide better counseling services for these students and others
with similar problems. The assessment consists of two parts -
one part is a questionnaire, which contains questions related to
family life, academic performance, peer relations and other
aspects, while the second part includes a set of algorithms.
Keyword—big data, Mental health assessment, college
student.
I. INTRODUCTION
It is aimed at college students, but it can not be
generalized. To establish the mental health of college students,
we must first purchase data. At present, most of the data that
can be purchased are based on physical characteristics, and
most of the mental health is carried out in the form of
questionnaires. We can set up several directions first, then set
up a questionnaire according to these directions, analyze the
median R or average value through the questionnaire results,
and finally compare these data with specific medical data.
Human behaviour is heavily influenced by psychological
state, which can impact learners' motivation to learn and
performance on learning tasks. The organisation and
guarantee for students to develop rigorous logical reasoning
and engage in creative endeavours is a healthy mental
condition. College students are a unique group[1]. Because of
their immature cognitive stage, they are more likely to
experience psychological issues including anxiety and
depression. Many college students' mental health issues have
gradually become more prominent, especially since the
COVID-19 outbreak, as a result of a lack of social activities,
disturbed family relationships, tremendous pressure to
succeed academically and professionally, as well as other
numerous factors. Extremely harmful incidents involving
college students that are brought on by psychological issues
are gradually increasing. Understanding how to properly
analyze a student's mental health is crucial not just for
ensuring that learning activities go smooth as possible but also
for providing colleges and universities with a solid foundation
on which to carry out informed mental health education. The
view of the existing problems in traditional mental health
assessment methods and the characteristics of data published
by college students on social network platforms, some
researchers began to try to apply ecological instantaneous
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assessment theory and social network data to mental health
assessment. In this approach, a data collection is created, data
features are extracted, and a model is trained to achieve the
automatic assessment of mental health. The data labels are
assigned using expert analysis or a self-assessment scale.
Although the above methods have achieved good results, there
are still some problems, such as difficult to collect network
behavior data, incomplete semantic expression of single mode
data, and it is difficult to accurately capture the mental health
status of the assessed. A big data-driven paradigm of mental
health assessment for college students is therefore suggested
in order to address the aforementioned issues.
II. RELATED WORK
By analyzing the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and
Incidence Study-2 data, Ref[2] provide a data-driven
illustration of how closely connected the exposures and the
mental health outcomes are and how model and variable
specifications produce "vibration of effects" (variation of
results under multiple different model specifications). Ref[3]
argue that, as developments in digital technology are
outpacing the evaluation of rigorous digital health
interventions, more advanced methodologies are needed to
keep up with the pace of digital technology development. The
investigation reveals different types of data that are generated
from play and the sources from which these data can be
accessed. Based on these insights, Ref[4] describe five
categories of digital biomarkers that can be derived from
game-based data, including behavior, cognitive performance,
motor performance, social behavior, and affect. Ref[5]
investigates the key query: Can twitter tweets give sufficient
data to complete out clinical PTSD evaluation surveys that
have historically been trusted by cliniciansUsing a modified
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) analysis, Ref[6]
proposed the LAXARY (Linguistic Analysis-based
Explainable Inquiry) model, a novel Explainable Artificial
Intelligent (XAI) model to detect and depict PTSD evaluation
of twitter users. The approach uses iterative subsampling,
integrates statistical inference and function optimization, and
produces ensemble forecasts for observed univariate
results[7]. Ref[8] use big data analysis technology to conduct
data analysis. Using a variety of cutting-edge statistical
learning techniques, Ref[9] compares the major socio-
environmental factors that influence suicide across large,
medium, and small metro areas in the most vulnerable US
states. Other influential work includes Refs[9-11].
A. Big data driven
In the digital age, data is regarded as an important asset of
mental health analysis in Colleges and universities, and has
been paid attention to by mental health analysis in Colleges
and universities. Many college mental health analysts say that
they are data-driven college mental health analysis, but is this
really the case? What is data driven? Are you really data
driven?
 It can be seen that data-driven means that data, as a means
of production, is applied to the evaluation and operation
process through scientific methods, and continuously makes
positive feedback to promote the optimization and
improvement of evaluation[12].
Here, I believe that data-driven has three characteristics:
Large amount of data: supported by massive and multi-
dimensional data; Scientific intelligence: automatic,
intelligent and scientific data analysis and processing; Drive
evaluation: provide guiding decision-making suggestions for
evaluation.
It can only be called "speaking with data". It is not
automatic in data acquisition and analysis, not intelligent in
decision-making, and has limited value in data application.
Fig. 1. Data driven development[2]
College mental health analysis can build a complete big
data analysis platform through Business Intelligence BI tools,
dig deep into data value through advanced technology and
scientific methods, and realize the development of data-driven
evaluation [13].
The data key analysis cloud has a powerful data center,
which supports the embedded application of evaluation rules
and algorithm models, analyzes and mines data, finds
potential risks and values in evaluation, provides data
guidance, and assists in mental health analysis, intelligent
analysis, scientific decision-making, enabling operation, and
data-driven in Colleges and universities.
B. Evaluation model theory
This study builds an automatic assessment model based on
Ecological instantaneous assessment (EMA) and in-depth
learning to realize the real-time assessment of students'
psychology in the natural environment. Ecological
instantaneous assessment is an ecological method proposed by
psychologist Shiffman, which samples and measures the
relevant behaviors and experiences of the subjects in the
natural environment in real time. It has high authenticity and
dynamics, and can more accurately reflect the psychological
characteristics of the subjects. Deep learning is the hot spot
and focus in the field of artificial intelligence at present[14]. It
extracts features by constructing multi-layer neural networks,
and then combines low-level features to form more abstract
high-level features, so as to learn the internal laws and
representation levels of various types of data and obtain their
implicit deep-seated semantic knowledge.
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Only when data analysis is embedded in evaluation,
relying on data analysis, applying data results to the evaluation
and operation process, and guiding employees' actions, can it
be called data-driven. Data driven can help college mental
health analysis to achieve data feedback evaluation, drive
evaluation growth, and improve the productivity of college
mental health analysis!
Many colleges and universities have data analysis for
mental health analysis, but it is still difficult to be data-driven.
The most fundamental reason is that they can not apply the
data results to the evaluation and guide the development of
evaluation. Figure 1 below shows data-driven development.
‖∆ ‖ ‖∆‖
(1)
‖∆ ‖ ‖∆ ‖ ‖∆ ‖ (2)
Data that is driven by big data sometimes has two or more
separate sources or forms. Words and images are the outward
expressions of what the human mind and psychology have
produced, and they can give insight into a person's
psychological state. College students often share multiple
modal data types, such as text, images, or expressions,
simultaneously on social media platforms to convey their
unique views and feelings in today's modern culture with its
highly developed Internet. Different modal data are
complementary to one another and can add more explanation.
We can obtain a more comprehensive and organised
examination and evaluation of students' mental health by
integrating and able to understand big data-driven data.
III. BIG DATA DRIVEN MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT
MODEL FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
This section mainly introduces the use of big data to
evaluate students' mental health. Because students' mental
health has certain commonness and specificity, we cannot
generalize. But for common psychological problems, we can
use big data and other algorithms to optimize the
psychological problems that are common to college students.
For example, students' learning attitude problems, severe
game patients and other psychological problems, we can use
the identification of universities to deal with such students.
The concept of system method, analysis and grade
determination, automatic evaluation framework design,
evaluation strategy selection, model evaluation
 implementation, evaluation of model evaluation impact,
correction of model parameters, and application are the
foundations of the model design. The model is composed of
the following four components: data cleansing and
preprocessing, text-based emotion calculation, image-based
emotion calculation, and mental health evaluation model
creation in order to realise the fusion of multi-modal data
information[15].
Fig. 2. Model framework
Intelligent analysis is the technical foundation of Business
Intelligence BI. Based on advanced technologies such as big
data and mobile Internet, i.e. acquisition and analysis, it is the
premise to help college mental health analysis quickly realize
personalized analysis needs and realize all evaluation
data[16].
Data itself has no value. Only by transforming data into
information can it have reference value. The analysis cloud
supports year-on-year, month on month, multi-dimensional
analysis, intelligent early warning and other enhanced
analysis. It collects and analyzes data in real time. By refining
the links between data, it assists college mental health analysis
in transforming the data of evaluation scenarios into logical
and valuable information.
The processing and analysis of personality types cannot be
done directly using the network content data of the students
that have been collected[17]. It is necessary to preprocess and
clean up these original data. the subjects whose questionnaire
scores were zero or full and the filling time was less than three
minutes were removed; first, the data from the depression self-
assessment questionnaire were cleaned; Second, the
information gathered by the web crawler is cleaned up; the
subjects are eliminated whose amount of network content data
is below the threshold; Finally, prior to computer processing,
the multimodal data are preprocessed and converted into
model-recognizable symbols. Examples include removing
unnecessary symbols from text data and changing the fonts;
for picture data, format conversion, size adjustment,
standardisation, and normalisation.
IV. EVALUATION MODEL SIMULATION
The data show that in recent years, psychological
problems such as depression, low self-esteem, adaptability
and success anxiety have become the main causes of suicide
or homicide among college students and even middle school
students. It is evident that the development of school mental
health, specifically the development of a system for evaluating
mental health and a system for managing psychological crises,
is near[18]. It is believed that many students have also
experienced mental health screening and even face-to-face
interview when they enter school, but many psychological
problems have not been found and solved. The core problem
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The big data-driven fusion computing mental health
assessment model is a method of rapidly and accurately
analysing students' mental health by mining the true emotions
concealed behind students' modal data, such as text, image,
and expression, and thoroughly taking into account students'
psychological changes over time. This information serves as
the foundation for the automatic evaluation model of college
students' mental health that is built using big data-driven data
fusion. In Figure 2, the model framework is shown.
lies in the particularity of students' psychological development
stage. First of all, students' psychological state matures rapidly
with the growth of age. Second, students' psychological state
is more vulnerable to the impact of the times, society and other
external environment, especially pressure, and is prone to
change. Therefore, the survey of students' mental health
should not be done once and for all, but should be
supplemented and followed up in time according to the
changes of the times and students' development stages.
According to this situation, we have developed a
comprehensive mental health evaluation system for children,
primary schools, middle schools, secondary vocational
schools, universities and other different stages, which
integrates different aspects of psychological indicators,
namely, the psychological evaluation file management
system, to assist schools in mental health construction, screen
out high-risk personnel in time, carry out targeted consultation
and guidance, and strive to minimize the possibility of
psychological problems forming and causing harm, Protect
students' mental health[19].
The role of psychological evaluation is also reflected in
assisting the psychological consultation room to formulate
plans and assisting psychiatrists in diagnosis. Psychological
assessment has become an important reference for
psychological counselors and psychiatrists to judge and
diagnose because of its accuracy, efficiency and ease of use.
According to the continuity of psychological state change and
the stage of treatment[20], Beijing Boren has developed a
hospital version psychological evaluation system, which can
establish their own psychological files for each patient, so as
to facilitate the long-term and continuous monitoring of the
state of patients and visitors. Compared with the traditional
paper evaluation, it not only reduces the burden of data
analysis by consultants and doctors, makes the results more
scientific, but also facilitates the comparison of data,
Auxiliary consultation and treatment.
We can see that the transfer probability of the entire
evaluation model is shown in Figure 3. The probability of
transition from S1 to S2 is shown in Table 1 and Figure 4. This
transition probability is calculated in Section 3. From Figure
3, we can also see that the psychological evaluation of college
students is more scientific after using big data driven, which
is exactly what we want to achieve.
 Fig. 3. Transfer Probability Model

TABLE I. EVALUATION MODEL TRANSFER PROBABILITY

Aug Sept Oct Nov Average
S1 0.5 0.45 0.31 0.7 0.2
S2 0.62 0.65 0.55 0.42 0.41
S3 0.42 0.45 0.52 0.51 0.57
S4 0.47 0.58 0.51 0.62 0.64
E1 0.72 0.28 0.68 0.67 0.52
E2 0.51 0.52 0.62 0.67 0.62
E3 0.32 0.27 0.59 0.49 0.27
E4 0.51 0.42 0.56 0.59 0.57
E5 0.52 0.75 0.81 0.65 0.71

Fig. 4. Evaluation model transfer probability

V. CONCLUSION
The big data-driven college students' mental health
assessment model is a web-based tool that can be used to
assess college students' mental health. The tool was developed
based on the results of previous studies conducted by
researchers and practitioners in the field of psychology. It
aims to help psychologists, counselors, psychiatrists and other
professionals work with college students. The concept behind
this system is that it will provide you with information about
the psychological state of students, which will help you
determine what kind of intervention you or others should take.
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