TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring Stress-Reducing Effects of Virtual Training Based on Subjective Response
AU - Bosse, T.
AU - Gerritsen, C.
AU - de Man, J.
AU - Treur, J.
N1 - Proceedings title: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP'12
Publisher: Springer Verlag
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Training to cope with negative emotions or stress is important for professionals with a high pressure job, such as police officers and military personnel. The work reported in this paper is part of a project that aims to develop a Virtual Reality based training environment for such professionals. As a first step in that direction, an experiment was performed to investigate the impact of virtual training on the subjects' experienced stress responses. A group of 10 participants was asked to rate the subjective emotional intensity of a set of affective pictures at two different time points, separated by six hours. Half of the group performed a session of virtual training in between, in which they were asked to actively apply reappraisal strategies as a form of emotion regulation, whereas the other half did not take part in this training session. The results indicate that the virtual training caused the participants in that group to give significantly lower ratings for the emotional intensity of the pictures. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
AB - Training to cope with negative emotions or stress is important for professionals with a high pressure job, such as police officers and military personnel. The work reported in this paper is part of a project that aims to develop a Virtual Reality based training environment for such professionals. As a first step in that direction, an experiment was performed to investigate the impact of virtual training on the subjects' experienced stress responses. A group of 10 participants was asked to rate the subjective emotional intensity of a set of affective pictures at two different time points, separated by six hours. Half of the group performed a session of virtual training in between, in which they were asked to actively apply reappraisal strategies as a form of emotion regulation, whereas the other half did not take part in this training session. The results indicate that the virtual training caused the participants in that group to give significantly lower ratings for the emotional intensity of the pictures. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_39
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_39
M3 - Article
SN - 0302-9743
SP - 322
EP - 330
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ER -