Choir versus Solo Singing: Effects on Mood, and Salivary Oxytocin and Cortisol Concentrations.

ABSTRACT: The quantification of salivary oxytocin (OXT) concentrations emerges as a helpful tool to assess peripheral OXT secretion at baseline and after various challenges in healthy and clinical populations. Both positive social interactions and stress are known to induce OXT secretion, but the relative influence of either of these triggers is not well delineated. Choir singing is an activity known to improve mood and to induce feelings of social closeness, and may therefore be used to investigate the effects of positive social experiences on OXT system activity. We quantified mood and salivary OXT and cortisol (CORT) concentrations before, during, and after both choir and solo singing performed in a randomized order in the same participants (repeated measures). Happiness was increased, and worry

SUBMITTER: Schladt TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5603757 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature