ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Red musical identity and subjective wellbeing: a longitudinal study of the chain mediating roles of awe and prosocial behavior.
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- The Impact of Red Songs and Music Training Experience on Implicit Prosocial Attitudes: Evidence from the SC-IAT Paradigm and Event-Related Potentials.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Relational-responsive music sharing and third-party charitable allocation: a 7-day randomized field experiment on social media.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Personality traits and adolescent anxiety: serial mediating roles of Red music cultural identification and self-identity.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- How do poverty types reshape the effect of political identity on prosocial behavior? The chain mediation role of emotion regulation and compensatory effect of cultural heritage education.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Objectives: Red music, as a distinctive form of red culture in China, plays an important role in fostering national identity and promoting subjective wellbeing. However, empirical research regarding red musical identity remains scarce. This study addresses this gap through a longitudinal study, using three waves of data to explore the relationship and potential psychological mechanisms between red musical identity and subjective wellbeing. Methods: The Red Musical Identity Scale, Dispositional Positive Emotion Scale (Awe subscale), Prosocial Tendencies Measure, and Subjective Happiness Scale were used for assessments. The participants were 586 college students from a university in western China, the majority of whom were female (77.2%). Results: The results showed that red musical identity at Time 1, awe at Time 2, prosocial behavior at Time 2, and subjective wellbeing at Time 3 were significantly correlated, and all were positively associated with subjective wellbeing at Time 3. However, the direct effect of red musical identity at Time 1 on prosocial behavior at Time 2 was not significant. After adjusting for age, sex, awe, and prosocial behavior at baseline, red musical identity at Time 1 positively predicted subjective wellbeing at Time 3. Furthermore, awe at Time 2 mediated the path from red musical identity at Time 1 to subjective wellbeing at Time 3. In addition, a sequential indirect pathway was supported: red musical identity at Time 1 showed indirect effects on subjective wellbeing at Time 3 successively via the awe at Time 2 and prosocial behavior at Time 2. Conclusion: These findings provide preliminary longitudinal evidence for the psychological mechanisms linking red musical identity and subjective wellbeing. However, given the single-site, predominantly female student sample, the conclusions should be viewed as tentative and are most applicable to similar university contexts.
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