Music performance anxiety can be facilitating or debilitating: Emotion accompaniment makes the difference

IF 1.6 3区心理学 0 MUSIC

Psychology of Music Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI:10.1177/03057356241230442

Emily Murphy, Molly F McGillivray, Peter D MacIntyre

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Abstract

Music performance anxiety (MPA) is most often defined as a negative experience that is harmful to successful performance, but potential facilitating effects of MPA often are acknowledged. The distinction between facilitating and debilitating effects often is attributed to various cognitive frameworks based on the quantity of anxiety, where smaller amounts may be helpful and larger amounts harmful. The hypothesis underlying the present study holds that the difference between facilitating and debilitating MPA is more a matter of quality than quantity, specifically the qualities associated with the other positive and negative emotions that accompany MPA. A web survey recruited 114 musicians to test for differences in MPA and accompanying emotions by responding to descriptions of four specific musical contexts. Results show that between roughly one-quarter and one-half of the musicians in the study viewed MPA as facilitating, depending on context. Respondents endorsing the facilitating quality of MPA (compared with the debilitating group) showed significantly higher levels of positive emotion accompanied by lower levels of both MPA and negative emotion in three of four contexts. Results are interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that emotions accompanying MPA shape the quality of its effect on musical performance.

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音乐表演焦虑症可能会促进表演，也可能会削弱表演：情感伴奏决定成败

音乐表演焦虑（MPA）通常被定义为一种对成功表演有害的负面体验，但 MPA 的潜在促进作用也经常被承认。促进作用和削弱作用之间的区别往往归因于基于焦虑量的各种认知框架，焦虑量越小可能越有益，焦虑量越大可能越有害。本研究的假设认为，促进性和削弱性 MPA 之间的区别与其说是数量问题，不如说是质量问题，特别是与伴随 MPA 出现的其他积极和消极情绪相关的质量问题。一项网络调查招募了 114 名音乐家，通过对四种特定音乐情境的描述进行回答，测试 MPA 和伴随情绪的差异。结果表明，研究中约有四分之一到二分之一的音乐家认为 MPA 具有促进作用，具体取决于不同的情境。在四种情境中的三种情境中，认可 MPA 促进性品质的受访者（与衰弱组相比）表现出显著较高的积极情绪水平，同时 MPA 和消极情绪水平较低。这些结果被解释为支持以下假设：伴随 MPA 的情绪会影响其对音乐表现的影响质量。

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期刊介绍： Psychology of Music and SEMPRE provide an international forum for researchers working in the fields of psychology of music and music education, to encourage the exchange of ideas and to disseminate research findings. Psychology of Music publishes peer-reviewed papers directed at increasing the scientific understanding of any psychological aspect of music. These include studies on listening, performing, creating, memorising, analysing, describing, learning, and teaching, as well as applied social, developmental, attitudinal and therapeutic studies. Special emphasis is placed on studies carried out in naturalistic settings, especially those which address the interface between music psychology and music education.