SynthesisPloS one2022
Music listening and stress recovery in healthy individuals: A systematic review with meta-analysis of experimental studies.
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Biofeedback With Heart Sound Following Trauma
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Psychobiological Stress Regulation in Depressive Women Achieved Through Group Music Therapy: Results From the Randomised-Controlled Music Therapy for Depression Study.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Trial
- The effect of listening to music and drawing on coping with dysmenorrhea complaints in nursing students: randomized controlled trial.BMC women's health · 2024Trial
- Childhood Emotional Abuse and Short-Term Stress Continuity Among University Students: The Role of General Music Preference.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Comparable Physiological Stress Responses following Music Listening and Quiet Reading: An exploratory pilot study.International journal of stress management · 2026Article
- Effects of Immersive Natural Sound Stimulation With the Spherison Device on Anxiety Symptoms: A Case Series.Clinical case reports · 2026Article
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- Biofeedback with heart sounds following a traumatic event.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Understanding emotional responses to music using machine learning: evidence from a public dataset.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Novel and emerging physical treatments for major depressive disorder.Fundamental research · 2025Review
- An electrophysiological investigation into 'Bagels': a song recorded to reduce subclinical anxiety in youth.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Complementary and alternative therapies in the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Review
- The therapeutic use of music for chronic pain: a psychological and neurobiological perspective.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- SAFEvR MentalVeRse.app: Development of a Free Immersive Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Acrophobia and Claustrophobia.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- The sound of stress recovery: an exploratory study of self-selected music listening after stress.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Mediating effect of depressive symptoms on the relationship between digital literacy and cognitive function in older adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Impact of Hospital Ward Acoustic Design on Postoperative Recovery of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction.Noise & healthArticle
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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-effects meta-regression with robust variance estimation demonstrated a non-significant cumulative effect of music listening on stress recovery g = 0.15, 95% CI [-0.21, 0.52], t(13) = 0.92, p = 0.374. In healthy individuals, the effects of music listening on stress recovery seemed to vary depending on musical genre, who selects the music, musical tempo, and type of stress recovery outcome. However, considering the significant heterogeneity between the modest number of included studies, no definite conclusions may currently be drawn about the effects of music listening on the short-term stress recovery process of healthy individuals. Suggestions for future research are discussed.
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