Application of Persuasive Multimedia to Raise Stress Awareness among the Secondary School Students

Students and teenagers are the majority of groups that are highly potential to have mental illness due to the life pressure or stress. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to devise and develop a prototype of persuasive multimedia application derived from the persuasive technology and multimedia principles by exposing the implications and mitigation of stress in order to enhance the stress awareness among the secondary school students. Pre and post-test were carried out with the aim of determining the stress level as well as performed the motivation test on the persuasive multimedia application to assess the awareness of students on the contents and software that being devised in this study. A total of 50 secondary school students which equally divided into gender group of male an female were chosen as a sample with gender as a research's moderator variable. Survey questionnaire form of Perceive Stress Scale (PSS) that used in the present study was based on the study of Cohen (1983), while survey questionnaire form of Instructional Materials Motivation Scale (IMMS) was adopted from Kellers (1933). ANCOVA result on the survey data for stress level revealed that students were not in stress condition during the survey time and there is no significant difference of stress awareness between the both genders. Whilst, MANOVA result on IMMS survey data discovered that the persuasive multimedia application has significant effect on student's motivation especially for satisfaction element. The result of the study also indicated that male students are more responsive to the persuasive multimedia than female students.