Stress Relief Effectiveness of Visual Elements Presented Through Videos

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.471How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Perceived stress, PSS, stress reduction, visual elements, video

Abstract

Stress can negatively impact both the academic aspect and the social aspect of high school students’ life[1]. Although many schools recognize this problem and have employed counselors to help students deal with stress, students seldom contact the counselors because students prefer to deal with the problem alone [2], which rarely yields results. This study aims to test the effectiveness of visual elements such as general movement, rhythm, and texture of the object presented through videos when it comes to stress relief in high school students and tries to explore the therapeutic value of stress relief videos. A 1-minute video showing a device simulating a balloon being repeatedly inflated and deflated while timed to a 4/4 beat was created using 3DS Max and later distributed to participants via WeChat along with a PSS [3] translated by the researcher and a questionnaire with open-ended questions that ask for feedback on the video. The difference in PSS results and the response to the questionnaire suggest that the visual cue of movement affected the perception of stress the most and 70.00% of participants feel relaxed after watching the video.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zixuan Zhao
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - Stress Relief Effectiveness of Visual Elements Presented Through Videos
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 82
EP  - 86
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.471
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.471
ID  - Zhao2020
ER  -