Research on the Design to Alleviate University Students’ Oppressive Emotions Through the Use of Serious Games

Abstract

Depression has become one of the most serious problems among university students. The purpose of this study was to help mentally sub-healthy university students to alleviate negative emotions through art therapy based on serious games. This study measured physical records and MMPI records of subjects during the experiment to find out whether the inclusion of art therapy theory and medical treatment frameworks in serious games can achieve the goal of slowing down negative emotions of mentally sub-healthy university students. According to the data analysis, after intervention, the skin electrical value the MMPI records are obviously declining, which proves that the intervention is effective, that is, the serious game with art therapy as the core has relieved the effect of depression. After the experiment, negative thoughts of more than half of the university students had improved to be better, and they had found interesting developments. The above situation proves that long-term use of art intervention can alleviate the symptoms of university students with depression.