Article
Music
Michele Biasutti, Roberta Antonini Philippe, Andrea Schiavio
Summary: The paper investigates the practices and strategies used by conservatory-level music teachers in different European countries and the USA to give online lessons during the COVID-19 health emergency. Teachers demonstrated strong abilities in managing technology, flexibility, problem solving, and creativity. However, they also faced challenges such as the time-consuming nature of online teaching and the struggle to maintain work-life balance.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Constantine Sedikides, Joost Leunissen, Tim Wildschut
Summary: Music-evoked nostalgia provides psychological benefits in the social, self, and existential domains. It indirectly elevates optimism, strengthens meaning in life, and augments self-continuity. Additionally, it serves as a buffer against discomforting states like sadness.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Naomi Ziv, Revital Hollander-Shabtai
Summary: The study examined changes in music listening habits and emotional reactions among individuals in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most participants' music listening habits remained similar or increased, with stronger emotional reactions, particularly in socially related emotions, compared to normal circumstances.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2022)
Article
Music
Ioulia Papageorgi
Summary: Currently, there is a lack of research on the prevalence and factors influencing music performance anxiety (MPA) among children and adolescent musicians. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of MPA and its associated factors in adolescent musicians. The findings revealed that approximately 11% of participants experienced high levels of MPA. Factors such as gender, age, and nationality were found to influence MPA levels, with girls reporting higher levels of MPA than boys. Variables related to individual characteristics, task-efficacy, and the performance environment explained around 60% of the variance in MPA. Highly anxious participants were more likely to experience maladaptive MPA. The study highlights the importance of personalized and culturally responsive interventions for musicians based on their individual profiles.
Article
Music
Ann-Kristin Herget, Priska Breves, Holger Schramm
Summary: Music is an important element in advertising, but its presence alone does not automatically enhance advertising effects. The concept of musical fit was developed to explore the effective use of music in advertising. A new instrument was created to systematically determine musical fit in audio-visual advertising, and its empirical testing revealed significant differences in perceived musical fit, attitudes, purchase intentions, and memory performance among different levels of musical fit. Using this instrument can lead to more consistent results in future research, and advertisers are advised to select music that closely matches the commercial's reference points to enhance its effectiveness.
Article
Music
Kirk N. Olsen, Merrick Powell, Aydin Anic, Robert J. Vallerand, William Forde Thompson
Summary: This study compared how fans of violent and non-violent music emotionally respond to music. The results showed that fans of violent music tend to rate negative emotions higher compared to fans of non-violent music. However, fans of violent music also utilize their preferred music for positive psychosocial functions to a similar or even greater extent.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Peter Miksza, Kelly Parkes, Joshua A. Russell, William Bauer
Summary: This study examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on music teachers' well-being and teaching efficacy. Results showed that both PK-12 and collegiate teachers experienced lower levels of overall well-being and higher levels of depression compared to published norms.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2022)
Article
Music
Anne-Marie Louise Czajkowski, Alinka Elizabeth Greasley, Michael Allis
Summary: This exploratory study found that mindfulness courses adapted for musicians have positive effects on music students' instrumental learning and performance. The participants reported increased awareness and focus, reduced self-criticism, and improved body awareness and listening skills. Mindfulness exercises also enhanced their efficiency and creativity in practice sessions and ensemble rehearsals. The study suggests the need for future research using more rigorous methodologies to further investigate the role of mindfulness in the music domain.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Goncalo T. Barradas, Laura S. Sakka
Summary: The study indicates that lyrics have an effect on musical emotions and mechanisms, which vary between groups of different cultural backgrounds.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2022)
Article
Music
Andrea Schiavio, Pieter-Jan Maes, Dylan van der Schyff
Summary: This paper argues that musical participation can be better understood through analysis using dynamical systems theory and coordination dynamics, offering new theoretical tools to describe aspects of joint musical experience in greater detail. By characterizing musical participation as an open, non-equilibrium, dynamical system informed by dynamical systems theory, new interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of musicology, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive (neuro)science may be stimulated to provide new insights into the core features of musical participation.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Jiejia Chen, Meike Scheller, Chuanyu Wu, Biyu Hu, Rong Peng, Cuihong Liu, Siyong Liu, Liwen Zhu, Jie Chen
Summary: Interest has been growing in the influence of musical training on executive functions (EFs) in recent years, with a systematic study showing that musically trained children outperform untrained children in attention inhibition, response inhibition, and working memory. Early childhood appears to be a sensitive period for the development of EFs through musical training.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2022)
Article
Music
Andrea Schiavio, Nikki Moran, Dylan van der Schyff, Michele Biasutti, Richard Parncutt
Summary: This qualitative study explored the reflections and experiences of professional composers in score-based music composition. The findings suggest that creative cognition in music composition is largely exploratory, grounded in bodily experience, and emerges from the recursive dialogue of agents and their environment.
Article
Music
Imre Lahdelma, James Armitage, Tuomas Eerola
Summary: Previous studies have shown that consonant chords facilitate the evaluation of similarly valenced target words. This study investigated the role of numerosity and timbre in affective priming using consonant/dissonant chords. The results revealed that congruent chord-word pairings led to faster reaction times, but this effect was only present with tetrad chords, suggesting that numerosity influences affective priming done with chords. No significant effects of timbre or participants' musical sophistication were found.
Review
Psychology, Educational
Andrea Creech, Keven Larouche, Mariane Generale, David Fortier
Summary: This systematic review examines the link between quality of life (QoL) and creativity in later life musical learning and participation. It highlights the role of creativity in life enrichment and subjective well-being, and how participatory music-making promotes creativity through social engagement, collaboration, and inclusivity. Creative expression in music offers various benefits related to QoL, such as positive emotions, engagement, relationships, a sense of meaning, and accomplishment. However, there are limitations in understanding the characteristics of creative musical processes or products, the specific contributions of these processes and products to quality of later life, and how to facilitate creative musical expression in diverse and multicultural later life contexts to maximize QoL benefits for the aging population.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Catherine Loveday, George Musgrave, Sally-Anne Gross
Summary: People working in the music industry, especially professional musicians, experience higher levels of anxiety and depression compared to the general population. This study found that musicians who view music as their main career are more likely to have poor mental wellbeing and higher levels of clinical depression. Additionally, being a solo or lead artist and perceiving oneself as successful are predictors of higher anxiety and depression levels.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2023)
Review
Music
Ee Ran How, Leonard Tan, Peter Miksza
Summary: A systematic review of music practice research from 1928 to 2020 using the PRISMA method revealed significant growth in literature between 2000 and 2020. The most commonly sampled research participants were from the United States, with quantitative research designs being predominant. The most frequently cited studies focused on deliberate practice, mental practice, and young musicians, highlighting the richness and complexity of music practice as a multifaceted activity.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Jan Stupacher, Jannie Mikkelsen, Peter Vuust
Summary: Two studies found that empathy is closely related to social bonding in interpersonal interactions involving music. Participants with higher empathy showed increased social bonding in movement interactions featuring music compared to those with lower empathy.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Robert J. Sternberg, Emily Rose Hurwitz, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Melanie K. Kuhl
Summary: This study assessed the love for musical instruments among music students. The components of intimacy, passion, and commitment significantly predicted affective, motivational, and behavioral outcomes. However, the scales showed less discriminant validity with respect to each other than expected.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2023)
Article
Music
Stephen S. Hudson
Summary: This article presents a theoretical framework that explores headbanging to metal music as a specific practice of perception and provides various analyses to demonstrate the significance of specific patterns in rhythmic patterning in the genre. Through headbanging, listeners express the flexible rhythmic style of metal music, resulting in experiences of heaviness and community.
MUSIC THEORY SPECTRUM
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Anna Wiedemann, Daniel Vogel, Catharina Voss, Jana Hoyer
Summary: This study systematically analyzed the interdependencies between music performance anxiety and other anxiety disorders, finding that generalized anxiety disorder acted as a full mediator between MPA and other anxiety types. Participants were divided into two sub-groups based on their anxiety profiles, with those exhibiting pathological anxiety consistently showing more severe MPA. The findings suggest that GAD is the strongest predictor for MPA among all major DSM-5 anxiety types.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2022)
