Author : Stephen Douglas Fogleman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Book Synopsis Music Listening and Emotional Awareness by : Stephen Douglas Fogleman
Download or read book Music Listening and Emotional Awareness written by Stephen Douglas Fogleman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cross-sectional and correlational study examines the relationship between music listening and emotional awareness. In an online survey, 205 respondents filled out instruments related to general emotional awareness, music use, music and mood regulation, and personality characteristics. Previous studies have demonstrated music's capacity to elicit emotion regulation in listeners. The present research aimed to look at another aspect of music and emotion: its purpose is to better understand how music listening relates to listeners' more general awareness of intrapersonal emotional states. The results gathered in the present study indicate that there are several significant relationships between participants' scores on a music and mood regulation measure and their ratings of emotional awareness, including the finding that participants who had certain higher ratings of emotional awareness were also less likely to turn to music for the purposes of discharging unpleasant emotions and were more likely to listen to music for the purpose of reflecting. The study also found that individuals who endorse the personality traits Openness to Experience and Agreeableness also have higher ratings of emotional awareness while listening to music. Finally, the study did not reveal a significant relationship between the amount of time individuals spend purposely listening to music and ratings of emotional awareness, nor did it find that the gender identity of participants related in any way to their scores of emotional awareness. These findings may be beneficial for counseling psychologists and other mental health professionals who wish to incorporate music listening0́4a strength-based intervention0́4into their work with clients. The results may have several implications for both practicing psychologists, their clients as well as researchers in the realm of music and emotion.