The sound of stress recovery: an exploratory study of self-selected music listening after stress.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Empirical support for the notion that music listening is beneficial for stress recovery is inconclusive, potentially due to the methodological diversity with which the effects of music on stress recovery have been investigated. Little is presently known about which recovery activities are chosen by individuals for the purpose of stress recovery, and whether audio feature commonalities exist between different songs that are selected by individuals for the purpose of stress recovery. The current pre-registered study investigated whether audio feature commonalities can be extracted from self-selected songs for the purpose of stress recovery. Furthermore, the present study exploratorily examined the relationship between audio features and participants' desired recovery-relat

SUBMITTER: Adiasto K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9912599 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature