Abstract
Researchers have focused on the negative effects of stress while its benefits have been relatively ignored. There has been limited studies to quantitatively understand the positive impact of stress. Although most of the studies were carried out by psychologist, in general, stress can be characterized by negative valence from the perspective of the affective state model (ASM). In fact, most recent psychological findings show that positive stress, also known as eustress, can improve motivation factor of an individual. In this paper we propose the use of electroencephalography (EEG) device to capture the brain's electrical activity in the frontal and central areas, in identifying positive (eustress) and negative (distress) stress. The distinctive brainwave patterns from the EEG device can be used to extract emotion/mood information of an individual and can be used to corelate the differing stress. The neurophysiological Model of affect (NPMoA) extracts the valence (V) and arousal (A) from the brainwave signals and corelate then to the psychological instruments for extracting eustress and distress. The Student Academic Stress Scale (SASS) will be used as the psychological instruments to extract eustress and distress. Preliminary results show the ability of using the EEG device to extract the brainwave pattern and to use in detecting stress based on the valence and arousal of the emotion. It is expected that NPMoA should be able to reveal correlation between positive emotions and eustress through the V and A. Such understanding can be extended to further analyze different stressors for academic stress and their effects on the brain signals.
Highlights
Stress is a common response from various stressors that consists of physiological and psychological changes that may introduce illness and discomfort if recurrently experienced [1, 2]
The Daily Life Experience Checklist (DLE) [16] need the participants to record the stress level that the participants experienced within the last 24 hours while other tools such as the Beck Depression Inventory [15], Cohen Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) [17] and Daily Stress Inventory [18] questionnaires acquire the participants to rate on the minor events that occurred in the past 2 weeks that is consistent with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)
This is important as emotion detection will be used in corelating eustress and distress to emotion detection using the EEG device based on the neuro-Physiological Model of Affect (NPMoA)
Summary
Stress is a common response from various stressors that consists of physiological and psychological changes that may introduce illness and discomfort if recurrently experienced [1, 2]. Stallman [22] developed the University Stress Scale that consists of a 21-items measure to provide an index of the intensity of an individual's stress experienced in the previous month This is to gauge the severity of stress levels in the six factors of academic, equity, relationships, parenting, practical, and health. The Daily Life Experience Checklist (DLE) [16] need the participants to record the stress level that the participants experienced within the last 24 hours while other tools such as the Beck Depression Inventory [15], Cohen Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) [17] and Daily Stress Inventory [18] questionnaires acquire the participants to rate on the minor events that occurred in the past 2 weeks that is consistent with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV).
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