The Japanese version of the barcelona music reward questionnaire (J-BMRQ) confirms the cross-cultural generalizability of the "five-factor" model.

ABSTRACT: The Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ) is an instrument designed to assess individual differences in music pleasure and reward. While the BMRQ was developed in Spanish and English, it has recently been translated into French and Chinese. A point of debate is whether the five-factor model, initially proposed in the English and Spanish versions of the BMRQ, was consistently replicated in the translated versions. While the French version successfully reproduced the five-factor model, the Chinese version did not, potentially due to cultural variations. In this study, we developed a Japanese version of the BMRQ (J-BMRQ) and tested whether the J-BMRQ could replicate the five-factor model. Data from 1550 Japanese participants were collected and analyzed using the J-BMRQ, and its construc

SUBMITTER: Honda S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12931774 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature