Abstract
The stress is classified roughly into the distress and the eustress. The method for distress reduction is to receive counseling. However more convenient stress evaluation system is needed. We focused on onomatopoeias. Relevance of them and stress was investigated. The first purpose of this study was to develop of simple evaluation system using onomatopoeias. The second was to evaluate the system and usefulness of onomatopoeias. Ten male subjects, with their ages from 20 to 23, were participated in the experiment using the system for two weeks. After that, they answered the system evaluation test of 34 items in 5-stages. As the result, the average was 3.94. The average of the onomatopoeias evaluation of 12 items was 3.95. The numbers of distressor's answers were significantly reduced compared with the Day 1-2 and the Day 13-14. Therefore, the system evaluated as a high rate. However, the average of one evaluation item, “This system leads to distress reduction”, was 2.8. This means that the system could not reduce subjects' distress. Thus, the system needs a more clear feedback that those users are in the distress state.
