How audience and general music performance anxiety affect classical music students' flow experience: A close look at its dimensions.

ABSTRACT: Flow describes a state of intense experiential involvement in an activity that is defined in terms of nine dimensions. Despite increased interest in understanding the flow experience of musicians in recent years, knowledge of how characteristics of the musician and of the music performance context affect the flow experience at the dimension level is lacking. In this study, we aimed to investigate how musicians' general music performance anxiety (MPA) level (i.e., the general tendency to experience anxiety during solo music performances) and the presence of an audience influence the nine flow dimensions. The participants were 121 university music students who performed solo a music piece once by themselves (private performance) and once in front of an audience (public performance). Their ge

SUBMITTER: Guyon AJAA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9649719 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature