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arxiv: 2606.25143 · v1 · pith:K6T4K5EGnew · submitted 2026-06-23 · 💻 cs.CL

The cognitive, affective, and behavioral expression of self-stigma among people who use drugs in online substance use communities

Layla Bouzoubaa , Hyung Wook Choi , Milan Varghese , Valerie Earnshaw , Rezvaneh Rezapour This is my paper

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keywords self-stigmasubstance useonline communitiesRedditco-occurrencetemporal patternscodebookpessimism
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The pith

Self-stigma among people who use drugs online integrates cognitive, affective, and behavioral signs, with behavioral indicators often appearing before core ones.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper creates a codebook of ten self-stigma indicators across cognitive, affective, and behavioral domains and applies it to over 72,000 Reddit posts. It finds self-stigma in 5.3 percent of posts from 74 percent of users, with strong co-occurrence between domains and behavioral signs rarely appearing alone. Contrary to stage-based models, behavioral indicators tend to show up earlier in users' posting sequences than internalized ones. Most indicators hold steady over time, but pessimism increases.

Core claim

Among people who use drugs online, self-stigma is an integrated phenomenon in which behavioral indicators rarely appear without internalized ones and often precede them. Most expressions remain stable over time, but pessimism about change deepens, marking a target for early digital intervention and showing that progressive stage models do not map directly onto textual disclosure.

What carries the argument

A ten-indicator codebook covering cognitive (self-labeling, pessimism/self-defeatism, deservingness/worthlessness), affective (shame, guilt/self-blame, despair/hopelessness), and behavioral (concealment, anticipated rejection, desire to quit, ambivalence) domains, used to classify posts and track co-occurrence plus temporal order.

If this is right

  • Behavioral indicators associate strongly with core ones at the user level (OR 4.65).
  • 87 percent of posts containing behavioral indicators also contain at least one core indicator.
  • Desire to quit appears at a median position of 0.08 while shame appears at 0.38.
  • Nine of the ten indicators stay stable across a user's posting history.
  • Only pessimism/self-defeatism rises over time (OR 1.62).

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Online forums could monitor for rising pessimism to flag users for early support resources.
  • Interventions might need to address behavioral and internalized signs together instead of in sequence.
  • The same classification approach could be tested on self-stigma expressions in other online health communities.
  • Text patterns may reveal when users first voice ambivalence or a desire to quit before full shame sets in.

Load-bearing premise

The median position of each indicator within a user's sequence of posts reflects the real order in which self-stigma components develop.

What would settle it

A dataset of user posting timelines in which core indicators appear before behavioral ones in most cases, or in which pessimism shows no increase over time.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.25143 by Hyung Wook Choi, Layla Bouzoubaa, Milan Varghese, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Valerie Earnshaw.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Sample selection and analytic stages. SS = self-stigma. Bouzoubaa et al.: Preprint submitted to Elsevier Page 4 of 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: User-level indicator co-occurrence shown as phi coefficients (𝑁 = 1,228 users). All pairwise associations were significant after FDR correction (𝑝 < 0.01). Black lines separate indicator domains. The strongest associations appeared within the behavioral domain (Concealment–Anticipated Rejection, 𝜙 = 0.46) and between cognitive and affective indicators of hopelessness (Pessimism–Despair, 𝜙 = 0.40). Bouzouba… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Median emergence positions for self-stigma indicators across users’ posting histories. Indicators are ordered by median first-appearance position (0 = first post, 1 = last post). Error bars represent interquartile range. Bouzoubaa et al.: Preprint submitted to Elsevier Page 12 of 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: LOESS-smoothed prevalence of all ten self-stigma indicators across users’ normalized posting trajectories (𝑁 = 2,710 posts from 384 users). Pessimism/Self-Defeatism (bold, with shaded 95% CI band from cluster bootstrap; 500 user-level resamples) was the only indicator showing significant temporal change (OR = 1.62, 95% CI [1.25, 2.10], 𝑝FDR = 0.002). Bouzoubaa et al.: Preprint submitted to Elsevier Page 14… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Objectives: To develop a codebook for self-stigma across cognitive, affective, and behavioral domains, and to estimate the prevalence, co-occurrence, and temporal patterns of these indicators in Reddit posts by people who use drugs. Methods: We developed a ten-indicator codebook through consensus-based abductive coding spanning cognitive (self-labeling, pessimism/self-defeatism, deservingness/worthlessness), affective (shame, guilt/self-blame, despair/hopelessness), and behavioral (concealment, anticipated rejection, desire to quit, ambivalence) domains; two coders reached substantial agreement (Cohen's k = 0.72). We then scaled classification with a large language model validated against expert coding (k = 0.73, F1 = 0.80), analyzing 72,115 thread-initiating posts from 1,660 English-language users (2006-2025). Results: 3,838 posts (5.3%) from 1,228 users (74.0%) contained self-stigma; all ten indicators discriminated self-stigma posts (RR 3.6 to 86.2), led by self-labeling (56.0%) and despair/hopelessness (48.5%). Self-stigma was integrated: core and behavioral indicators were strongly associated at the user level (OR = 4.65, 95% CI 3.12-6.94, p < 0.001), and 87.0% of posts with behavioral indicators also contained a core indicator. Contrary to progressive models, behavioral indicators emerged earlier than core ones (desire to quit at median position 0.08 vs. shame at 0.38). Nine of ten indicators were stable across posting trajectories; only pessimism increased (OR = 1.62, 95% CI 1.25-2.10). Conclusion: Among people who use drugs online, self-stigma is an integrated phenomenon in which behavioral indicators rarely appear without internalized ones and often precede them. Most expressions remain stable over time, but pessimism about change deepens, marking a target for early digital intervention and showing that progressive stage models do not map directly onto textual disclosure.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript develops a ten-indicator codebook for self-stigma across cognitive (self-labeling, pessimism/self-defeatism, deservingness/worthlessness), affective (shame, guilt/self-blame, despair/hopelessness), and behavioral (concealment, anticipated rejection, desire to quit, ambivalence) domains. Through consensus coding (Cohen's k=0.72) and LLM validation (k=0.73, F1=0.80), it analyzes 72,115 Reddit posts from 1,660 users, reporting self-stigma in 5.3% of posts from 74% of users, strong user-level associations between core and behavioral indicators (OR=4.65), 87% co-occurrence in posts, earlier median emergence of behavioral indicators in posting trajectories (e.g., desire to quit at 0.08 vs. shame at 0.38), stability of nine indicators, and increasing pessimism (OR=1.62).

Significance. If the temporal and association findings hold after addressing methodological details, the work provides evidence that self-stigma in online drug-use communities is integrated rather than strictly progressive, with behavioral expressions often preceding internalized ones and most patterns stable except for deepening pessimism. This could inform early digital interventions. The large-scale dataset, reported inter-rater and LLM validation metrics, and direct statistical reporting (ORs, RRs, median positions) are strengths enabling quantification of textual patterns.

major comments (1)
  1. [Results and Conclusion] Results section: The central claim that behavioral indicators 'often precede' core ones (desire to quit median position 0.08 vs. shame at 0.38), contradicting progressive stage models, rests on treating median normalized positions within each user's posting trajectory as a proxy for emergence order. The manuscript provides no details on position computation, normalization method, handling of short trajectories or users with few posts, or robustness checks against posting selection biases, variable trajectory lengths, or codebook/LLM detection artifacts. This is load-bearing for the temporal conclusion and the integrated-phenomenon interpretation.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: Lacks detail on post selection criteria, handling of multiple posts per user, and potential platform-specific biases, which would improve reproducibility even if addressed in the full Methods.

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We thank the referee for their thoughtful and constructive review. The feedback on methodological transparency for the temporal analysis is well-taken, and we address it directly below. We have revised the manuscript to incorporate additional details and checks.

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  1. Referee: [Results and Conclusion] Results section: The central claim that behavioral indicators 'often precede' core ones (desire to quit median position 0.08 vs. shame at 0.38), contradicting progressive stage models, rests on treating median normalized positions within each user's posting trajectory as a proxy for emergence order. The manuscript provides no details on position computation, normalization method, handling of short trajectories or users with few posts, or robustness checks against posting selection biases, variable trajectory lengths, or codebook/LLM detection artifacts. This is load-bearing for the temporal conclusion and the integrated-phenomenon interpretation.

    Authors: We agree that the original Methods section provided insufficient detail on the normalized position metric, which is central to the temporal claims. In the revised manuscript we have added an explicit subsection under Methods describing the computation: for each user, posts are ordered by timestamp; the normalized position of an indicator instance is (post rank - 1) / (total posts by user - 1). Median positions are then taken across users who expressed the indicator. Users with fewer than 10 posts were excluded from the primary temporal analysis (leaving 892 users); we report sensitivity analyses using thresholds of 5 and 20 posts in the supplement, which preserve the ordering (behavioral indicators earlier than core). To address variable trajectory lengths and selection biases we rely on within-user normalization and user-level medians rather than aggregate post-level statistics; we also added a permutation test that randomly reorders posts within each user and confirms the observed median differences exceed chance. Potential codebook/LLM artifacts are mitigated by the reported human agreement (k = 0.72) and LLM validation (k = 0.73, F1 = 0.80) plus manual adjudication of disagreements; we have expanded the Limitations section to discuss residual detection biases. These additions do not change the reported results but make the proxy and its robustness explicit. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper performs an observational content analysis on Reddit posts using a consensus-developed codebook and LLM classification, then directly reports empirical quantities: prevalence (5.3%), user-level associations (OR 4.65), co-occurrence rates (87%), and median normalized positions within posting sequences. These are computed outputs from the coded data rather than quantities defined in terms of themselves or obtained by fitting parameters that are then relabeled as predictions. No equations, self-citations, or uniqueness theorems appear in the provided text that would reduce any central claim to an input by construction. The temporal-order interpretation rests on a methodological choice (median position) whose validity can be debated on external grounds but does not constitute circularity within the derivation chain.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claims rest on the validity of the ten-indicator codebook and the assumption that LLM-scaled labels on Reddit text faithfully capture self-stigma expressions; no free parameters or invented entities are introduced.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Reddit posts by self-identified people who use drugs contain readable textual signals of cognitive, affective, and behavioral self-stigma that can be reliably coded.
    Invoked when scaling from expert-coded subset to the full 72,115 posts and when interpreting prevalence and ordering.
  • domain assumption The median position of an indicator across a user's posts reflects the relative emergence order of that component of self-stigma.
    Used to claim that behavioral indicators precede core ones contrary to progressive models.

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