Embodiment of emotions in adolescents’ musical expression

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Psychology of Music Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI:10.1177/03057356241257426

Suvi Saarikallio, Birgitta Burger, Geoffrey Luck

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Abstract

Music has been actively studied from the perspectives of emotional expression and body movement, but not during adolescence. The current study addressed music as a forum for adolescent embodied emotion expression. Based on prior research, we hypothesised that adolescents would be able to differentiate between emotions in their music-related expressive body movements based on valence and arousal characteristics. Participants ( N = 60, 17 male, mean age 14.72 years) played djembe to express five basic emotions (happiness, tenderness, sadness, anger, fear) while body movements were motion captured. Correlations of movement features with emotion-regulation tendencies, as measured by the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), were additionally explored. Adolescents demonstrated great capacity to use all measured movement features to express emotions: movement speed, variance, area and length all differed significantly between emotions. In particular, the results confirm the hypothesised connection of high arousal to high speed and acceleration and further suggest that positive valence relates to wider area and longer performance. In addition, adolescents scoring high on cognitive reappraisal gave faster and more stable performances. We discuss creative body movement as part of youth emotional development.

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青少年音乐表达中的情感体现

从情感表达和肢体运动的角度对音乐进行研究的案例非常多，但对青少年时期的音乐研究却不多。目前的研究将音乐作为青少年体现情绪表达的论坛。基于之前的研究，我们假设青少年能够根据情绪和唤醒特征来区分音乐相关肢体动作中的情绪。参与者（60 人，男性 17 人，平均年龄 14.72 岁）演奏扬琴以表达五种基本情绪（快乐、温柔、悲伤、愤怒、恐惧），同时对肢体动作进行动作捕捉。此外，还探讨了动作特征与情绪调节倾向的相关性，情绪调节问卷（ERQ）测量了情绪调节倾向。青少年在使用所有测量到的动作特征来表达情绪方面表现出了很强的能力：不同情绪下的动作速度、方差、面积和长度都有显著差异。特别是，研究结果证实了高唤醒与高速度和加速度之间的假设联系，并进一步表明积极情绪与更大的面积和更长的表现有关。此外，认知再评价得分高的青少年表现得更快更稳定。我们讨论了作为青少年情感发展一部分的创造性肢体运动。

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Psychology of Music Multiple-

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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.