Under the Condition of Stress Arousal: The Influence of Positive Emotion Design on Multimedia Learning

Abstract

Emotional design in multimedia learning is an instructional design method, which can induce positive emotional experiences for students to improve their intrinsic motivation, thus facilitating their learning outcomes. However, previous studies have rarely considered the impact of positive emotional design on learning outcomes when students were in stressful situations. In this regard, this study explored the role of positive emotional design principles in students' stress-arousal state. Fifty students from a university in central China were randomly divided into two groups, 25 as the experimental group and 25 as the control group. On the premise of completing the stress arousal task, two groups studied the multimedia courses of positive emotion design and neutral emotion design respectively by using ECG equipment and questionnaires. The results of the study show that students can learn materials with positive emotion design to effectively prevent the decline of transfer performance caused by the stressful situation.