ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Live Music Performance: The Relationship Between Flow and Music Performance Anxiety.
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- Recent developments in coping strategies focusing on music performance anxiety: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The application of virtual reality exposure versus relaxation training in music performance anxiety: a randomized controlled study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Catalysts of music performance anxiety: a qualitative exploration of undergraduate students through the person-environment-occupation framework.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Performing in the Absence of Debilitating Anxiety: A Qualitative Analysis from the Perspective of Professional Western Classical Ensemble Musicians.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- On stage: the association between self-efficacy, flow, anxiety, and performers' well-being in musical performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Development and validation of the German Performance-related Questionnaire for Musicians (PQM) for measuring situational music performance anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Mapping the relationship between flow experience and music performance anxiety: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Finding flow at the piano: psychological regulation and configurational profiles among art students at Chinese sport universities.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Exploring the structure and functional meaning of pre-performance emotions in young adult musicians.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Flow in choral singing: associations with perceived choral memory performance and well-being among older adults.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Music students' psychological profiles: unveiling three coping clusters using schema mode inventory.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Measuring situational music performance anxiety - the Polish adaptation of the Performance-related Questionnaire for Musicians.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Flow and performance: a quantitative study of elicitation modeling in a piano performance perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Psychological capital and music performance anxiety: the mediating role of self-esteem and flow experience.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Early harmonies, enduring echoes-how early life experiences and personality traits shape music performance anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Impact of music performance anxiety on cardiovascular blood pressure responses, autonomic tone and baroreceptor sensitivity to a western classical music piano-concert.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Predictors of flow state in performing musicians: an analysis with the logistic regression method.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Embouchure Dystonia as a Network Disease.Advances in neurobiology · 2023Article
- Inducing and disrupting flow during music performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- How audience and general music performance anxiety affect classical music students' flow experience: A close look at its dimensions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Most studies exploring the relation between flow and Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) have focused on the disposition of generally experiencing flow and the occurrence of MPA. Little is known about the connection between experiencing flow and MPA as it relates to a specific performance. In this study, flow and MPA have been investigated in 363 orchestral musicians in relation to a particular live music performance. The musicians were asked to fill out a questionnaire immediately after a concert. Flow experience during the performance was measured using the Flow Short Scale. The Performance-specific Questionnaire on MPA (PQM) was used for MPA. The PQM addresses particular aspects of MPA and refers retrospectively to the time before and during the performance as well as to the moment of filling out the questionnaire after the performance. Using three scales, the functional coping, the perceived symptoms of MPA and self-efficacy were determined for each time point of the performance. The results showed that experiencing flow was on average higher among orchestral musicians compared to a sample of the general population. However, there were differences between the professional and non-professional musicians. All PQM scales showed significant correlations with the global flow scale. Regression analysis on the global flow score found that regarding the time before the performance the PQM scale symptoms of MPA were diametrically connected with the flow experience. The PQM scale functional coping was shown to be positively related to the flow during the performance. Moreover, high self-efficacy was found to be closely related with stronger flow experience. Furthermore, flow seems to have positive effects on functionally coping with MPA and the self-efficacy after the performance. These findings confirm the negative relationship between flow and symptoms of MPA, offering further approaches in understanding the relationship especially for live music performances.
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