The Goals and Effects of Music Listening and Their Relationship to the Strength of Music Preference.

ABSTRACT: Individual differences in the strength of music preference are among the most intricate psychological phenomena. While one person gets by very well without music, another person needs to listen to music every day and spends a lot of temporal and financial resources on listening to music, attending concerts, or buying concert tickets. Where do these differences come from? The hypothesis presented in this article is that the strength of music preference is mainly informed by the functions that music fulfills in people's lives (e.g., to regulate emotions, moods, or physiological arousal; to promote self-awareness; to foster social relatedness). Data were collected with a diary study, in which 121 respondents documented the goals they tried to attain and the effects that actually occurred for

SUBMITTER: Schafer T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4795651 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature