Music listening and stress recovery in healthy individuals: A systematic review with meta-analysis of experimental studies.

ABSTRACT: Effective stress recovery is crucial to prevent the long-term consequences of stress exposure. Studies have suggested that listening to music may be beneficial for stress reduction. Thus, music listening stands to be a promising method to promote effective recovery from exposure to daily stressors. Despite this, empirical support for this opinion has been largely equivocal. As such, to clarify the current literature, we conducted a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized, controlled experimental studies investigating the effects of music listening on stress recovery in healthy individuals. In fourteen experimental studies, participants (N = 706) were first exposed to an acute laboratory stressor, following which they were either exposed to music or a control condition. A random-

SUBMITTER: Adiasto K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9205498 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature