Mental Health Assessment of College Students Based on Social Sentiment Analysis and Multi-Branch Neural Networks

Liping Li 1,2
1College of Marxism, Suqian University, Suqian, Jiangsu, 223800, China
2College of Marxism, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211106, China

Abstract

Aiming at the complexity of mental health assessment for students in colleges and universities, this paper proposes an innovative framework that integrates social sentiment analysis and multi-branch neural networks. A multilevel mental health assessment system is constructed through cross-modal feature interaction CNN+BiGRU with heterogeneous graph structure modeling. In the model design, image feature extraction is pre-trained by five-branch CNN structure ViT, text features are fused by dynamic word embedding with multi-scale convolution, and a virtual node and metapath-driven heterogeneous graph neural network H-GNN is introduced to strengthen the global relationship modeling. Experiments show that the model achieves 89.7% and 91.2% accuracy on Twitter-15 and Twitter-17 datasets, respectively, and the F1 values are improved by 3.24% and 2.32% from the optimal baseline BICCM. In the actual college mental health monitoring, the model successfully captured the time-series fluctuations of depression index and anxiety level, and found that the rational-perceptual dimension was highly correlated with the examination cycle, with 0.69 during the midterm examination and 0.68 during the final examination. Through the ten-fold cross-validation comparison experiments, the model significantly outperforms the cutting-edge models, such as MIMNBERT, EF-NET and so on on the weighted average index, with an average accuracy rate of 99.02% and F1 value of 98.08%. The study shows that the framework provides a highly accurate and interpretable technical solution for mental health risk early warning, which is especially suitable for dynamic monitoring scenarios in universities.

Keywords: social sentiment analysis; multi-branch neural network; heterogeneous graph modeling; mental health assessment