ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Effect of Group Impromptu Music Therapy on Emotional Regulation and Depressive Symptoms of College Students: A Randomized Controlled Study.
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- Effects of comprehensive group music therapy on affect and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia undergoing community-based rehabilitation: a preliminary study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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- A review of artificial intelligence methods enabled music-evoked EEG emotion recognition and their applications.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Effect of group impromptu music therapy on improving test anxiety and emotional regulation ability in medical students.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Music-based therapeutic interventions for medical school students with emotional regulation and mental health: a pre-post cohort study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Research trends of exercise therapy of college students in depression from 2002 to 2022: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Effects of Music, Massage, Exercise, or Acupuncture in the Treatment of Depression Among College Students: A Network Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2023Review
- Role of emotion regulation capacities in affective state among Chinese high school students in the post-pandemic era of COVID-19.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Practice makes perfect sense to me: a retrospective analysis of recommending independent skills practice in music therapy for military-connected individuals.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
Difficulty in emotional regulation is significantly correlated with depression. Depression is a psychological disease that seriously affects the physical and mental health of college students. Therefore, it is of great importance to develop diversified preventive interventions such as group impromptu music therapy (GIMT). The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of GIMT on the improvement of emotional regulation ability and the reduction of depressive symptoms in college students. A 71 college students (36 in the experimental group and 35 in the control group) were recruited to carry out randomized controlled trial was used. The experimental group was intervened by GIMT. After the 4th week of intervention, follow-up and scale measurement were carried out. In the experimental group, emotional regulation difficulty scales (DERS) showed significant difference before and after GIMT, implying the improvement in the emotional regulation. But there was no significant improvement in the control group. In addition, the depressive symptoms of experimental group were relieved. All findings showed that GIMT can effectively improve college students' emotional regulation and reduce depressive symptoms.
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