ArticleBMC psychology2023
Changing positive and negative affects through music experiences: a study with university students.
Article in BMC psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Investigating the dose-response relationship between music and anxiety reduction: A randomized clinical trial.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Affective priming through Indian ragas: influence on perception of ambiguous visual stimuli and creativity.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Communal music as a tool to improve positive affect after social ostracism or negative autobiographical memory recollection.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploring the Impact of Music Preferences on Depressive Symptoms and Meaning in Life: A Network Analysis Approach.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Positive and Negative Affect Differentially Predict Individual Differences and Intra-Individual Changes in Daily Cognitive Failures in Younger and Older Adults.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Effects of mindfulness-based music listening on conflict control in young adults with insomnia disorder: behavioral and event-related potential evidence.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundCurrently, there are few empirical studies that demonstrate the effects of music on specific emotions, especially in the educational context. For this reason, this study was carried out to examine the impact of music to identify affective changes after exposure to three musical stimuli.
methodsThe participants were 71 university students engaged in a music education course and none of them were musicians. Changes in the affective state of non-musical student teachers were studied after listening to three pieces of music. An inter-subject repeated measures ANOVA test was carried out using the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) to measure their affective state.
resultsThe results revealed that: (i) the three musical experiences were beneficial in increasing positive affects and reducing negative affects, with significant differences between the interaction of Music Experiences × Moment (pre-post); (ii) listening to Mahler's sad fifth symphony reduced more negative affects than the other experimental conditions; (iii) performing the blues had the highest positive effects.
conclusionsThese findings provide applied keys aspects for music education and research, as they show empirical evidence on how music can modify specific affects of personal experience.
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