The role of Big Five personality domains and facets in musical sensibility: a twin study.

ABSTRACT: Musical sensibility can be understood as a propensity to be emotionally and aesthetically engaged by music and may constitute a key feature of a multidimensional definition of musicality. Yet, the nature of this construct is only just beginning to be understood. In a sample of adult Norwegian twins (N = 2592), we aimed to establish whether interindividual variability in musical sensibility may partially be attributable to personality, both in terms of the Big Five personality domains and their lower-order facets, as well as the role of genes and environments. Phenotypic analyses demonstrated that the personality domains of open-mindedness (and the facet aesthetic sensitivity in particular), agreeableness (and the facet compassion), and negative emotionality were all significantly associate

SUBMITTER: Hansen HMU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12009312 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature