{"title":"Examining the relationships among self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and self-worth of adolescent singers in structural equation modeling","authors":"Kexin Xu","doi":"10.1177/03057356251315690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356251315690","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to understand the relationships among self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and self-worth of adolescent singers, and how each construct functions in high school choir. The second purpose was to understand the degree to which these constructs predicted singing participation after high school graduation. Participants consisted of 215 high school students enrolled in choir from five public high schools in the United States. The majority of participants reported their self-identified gender as female (61.9%, n = 133), with 27.0% reporting as male ( n = 58), and 11.2% preferring to indicate other ( n = 24). IBM SPSS Statistics 28 and Lavaan were used for data analysis. Physiological states were the only significant predictor of singing self-efficacy, p < .05. A significant and positive relationship was found between self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation for singing. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the effect of self-worth on the relationship between self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation, revealing a significant and negative interaction effect in the model, p < .001. Furthermore, the moderation model was a significantly better fit than the direct effect model, p < .001. Participants’ plans to continue participating in singing were positively related to intrinsic motivation and mastery experiences.","PeriodicalId":47977,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Music","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143435060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of cross-modal priming using emotional music on facial emotion recognition among autistic children","authors":"Fengrui Xu, Xiaoyue Ding, Gong-Liang Zhang, Dianzhi Liu, Jingyi Liu, Deming Shu","doi":"10.1177/03057356251315661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356251315661","url":null,"abstract":"To examine the impact of music as a cross-modal prime on facial emotion recognition ability in autistic children, this study compares the priming effect of music with that of faces as an intramodal prime and nonverbal sounds as the same cross-modal prime. The response time and accuracy of facial emotion recognition (happy and sad) were compared among 21 neurotypical children and 17 autistic children under various priming stimuli. A data analysis revealed that autistic children exhibited worse recognition of facial emotional expressions and demonstrated longer reaction time than neurotypical children. Unlike the other two stimuli (facial expressions and nonverbal sounds), music as a cross-modal prime resulted in slightly higher response accuracy for emotionally congruent conditions compared with emotionally incongruent conditions among autistic children. Furthermore, reaction time was significantly prolonged under emotionally congruent conditions than under emotionally incongruent conditions. This suggests that autistic children demonstrate a greater propensity to allocate additional time to improve the accuracy of their judgments under congruent conditions compared with incongruent conditions. Therefore, music intervention has significant potential for supporting autistic children to empathize with faces by playing emotionally congruent music and improving their facial emotion recognition abilities.","PeriodicalId":47977,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Music","volume":"208 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143401252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dorothée Morand-Grondin, Beatriz Oliveira, Floris T van Vugt, Simon Rigoulot
{"title":"A new look at the potential links between music practice, empathy, and prosociality","authors":"Dorothée Morand-Grondin, Beatriz Oliveira, Floris T van Vugt, Simon Rigoulot","doi":"10.1177/03057356241312213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241312213","url":null,"abstract":"Engaging in music practice is often assumed to increase empathy and prosociality. However, data in support of this relationship are limited, leaving unclear which components of empathy (cognitive empathy, emotional contagion, and emotional disconnection) and prosocial behaviors, if any, would be affected. Here, we recruited musicians with more than 2 years of musical experience ( n = 80) and nonmusicians ( n = 89) to measure empathy (using subjective and objective measures) and prosociality (using economic games). We hypothesized that musicians would score higher than nonmusicians on empathy and prosociality, and that musicians who practice more would show greater effects. Using classical and Bayesian analyses of variance (ANOVAs), we found no difference between musicians and nonmusicians in empathy and prosociality, and no correlation with the amount of practice. Exploratory analyses revealed associations between the age of onset of music practice and empathy, suggesting that it is not music practice per se but specifically its initiation in early life that could be linked to empathy. These findings challenge the common assumption that music practice in general increases empathy and prosociality and invites to explore in which specific contexts music practice does so (e.g., particular age ranges or group-based settings).","PeriodicalId":47977,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Music","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143191866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jan Stupacher, Cecilie Møller, Alexandre Celma-Miralles, Peter Vuust
{"title":"Beat perception in polyrhythms is influenced by spontaneous motor tempo, musicianship, and played musical style","authors":"Jan Stupacher, Cecilie Møller, Alexandre Celma-Miralles, Peter Vuust","doi":"10.1177/03057356241311581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241311581","url":null,"abstract":"No two people perceive the same music alike. This may apply especially to polyrhythms, which consist of two or more rhythms with indivisible regular pulses, such as three over four (3:4). Either of these pulses can be perceived as the underlying beat. Previously, we showed that people naturally tap along to pulses that can be subdivided into groups of two or four equally spaced units (i.e., binarized pulses). This propensity for binarized pulses is reduced when the opposite pulse admitting ternary subdivisions is pitched lower. However, individual factors may modulate these binary and low-pitch preferences. Therefore, we examined the influence of spontaneous motor tempo (SMT), musicianship, played instrument, and played musical style on beat perception in 2:3 and 3:4 polyrhythms. Participants with slower SMT synchronized their tapping with slower metrical levels of the pulses admitting binary subdivisions, suggesting that the natural pace with which we move through the world is linked to our perception of musical tempo. In addition, classical musicians were more likely to synchronize with lower pitched pulses than pop/rock musicians when the low pitch was in the pulse admitting ternary subdivisions. This suggests that enculturation in specific musical styles shapes how pitch and rhythm influence beat perception.","PeriodicalId":47977,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Music","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spontaneous motor tempo modulates the effect of music tempo on arousal levels","authors":"Kyoko Hine, Koki Abe, Shigeki Nakauchi","doi":"10.1177/03057356241311288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241311288","url":null,"abstract":"Music tempo affects listeners’ mental state, especially arousal levels. However, several studies have demonstrated that the effect of music tempo on arousal while listening to music can be modulated by individual differences, such as the pace of mental activity, that is, spontaneous motor tempo (SMT). Thus, SMT is a candidate factor that affects the relationship between music tempo and arousal. Here, we conducted a psychological experiment to investigate how SMT modulates the effect of music tempo on listeners’ arousal levels. First, the participants were required to tap their finger at their preferred tempo to identify the SMT of each participant. Next, the participants listened to music and then rated their arousal levels on a nine-point scale. A linear mixed model analysis revealed a significant effect of the interaction between music tempo and preferred tapping tempo on arousal levels. This finding indicates that SMT modulated the effect of music tempo on arousal levels while listening to music; the faster the SMT of a listener, the greater the impact of music tempo on arousal levels.","PeriodicalId":47977,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Music","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142988487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thank you for the music: Music as a social surrogate that protects against social threats","authors":"Elaine Paravati, Esha Naidu, Shira Gabriel","doi":"10.1177/03057356241312219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241312219","url":null,"abstract":"Social need fulfillment is imperative to well-being, leading to a strong motivation to ensure that social needs are met. The social surrogacy hypothesis proposes that individuals may use non-human social targets, including television characters, books, or comfort foods, to address social needs. The current work sought to examine the social surrogacy hypothesis in the domain of music. Utilizing both correlational (Study 1) and experimental (Study 2) methodology, the current research suggests that music can provide social benefits in response to social threats. In addition, it suggests that music may operate via multiple social surrogate pathways (Study 1) and that the benefits of music are social in nature (Study 2).","PeriodicalId":47977,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Music","volume":"292 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meta-analysis on the effects of music participation on social and emotional measures across the lifespan","authors":"Patrick K Cooper","doi":"10.1177/03057356241311166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241311166","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to conduct a random-effects meta-analysis to measure the overall mean effect of music participation on social and emotional measures in participants across the lifespan. Results showed small to medium overall effects ( N = 18,564, k = 56, g = .23, p < .0001, 95% confident interval = [.16, .29]), indicating subjects who participated in music had better scores on social and emotional measures compared with those participating in other activities (such as sports) or no other activities (passive control group). Moderator analysis showed no statistical differences across seven moderators. Results did not differ by age of the participants, type of scale used (social or emotional), research design (cross-sectional or experimental), presence of an active or passive control group, if the study was located at a school site or elsewhere (such as a town community center), length of the intervention, or the type of musical activities experienced by the participants (singing, instrumental, or both). Overall, the results suggest that the social and emotional benefits of participating in musical activities transcend age and type of music making. The utility of music participation as a conduit of social or emotional growth appears to be empirically supported.","PeriodicalId":47977,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Music","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Weining, Deborah Meier, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Martin Tröndle
{"title":"From structural listening to daydreaming: Listening modes influence the individual experience in live concerts","authors":"Christian Weining, Deborah Meier, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Martin Tröndle","doi":"10.1177/03057356241310863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241310863","url":null,"abstract":"Listening modes are often ignored in music perception research, especially when it comes to the supposedly attentive listening situation of a classical concert. The audience members’ various ways of listening, understood as the directedness of activity toward different dimensions of sound, is hypothesized to play a key role in the experience of live music. We assessed listening activity of participants ( N = 786) attending a series of experimental live concerts. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) revealed the following five listening modes: emotional-immersive, structural, sound-causal, diffuse, and single-focused. Furthermore, listening modes significantly predicted affective states (positive activation, negative activation, and valence) after the concert. Results show that, despite music educational paradigms, structural listening increases negative activation, whereas emotional-immersive and sound-causal listening increase valence and lead to relaxation in a classical music performance. The results are in line with former empirical and theoretical taxonomies of listening modes and provide a new contribution to the understanding of the role of listening modes for the perception and aesthetic experience of music in live concerts and beyond.","PeriodicalId":47977,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Music","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kaja Korošec, Anna Backman Bister, Eva Bojner Horwitz
{"title":"“A space to be myself ”: Music and self-determination in the lives of autistic adults","authors":"Kaja Korošec, Anna Backman Bister, Eva Bojner Horwitz","doi":"10.1177/03057356241305558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241305558","url":null,"abstract":"Despite many decades of academic interest in music and autism, we know little about what music means to autistic adults and how they experience it. The few existing studies lack a common theoretical basis and are therefore difficult to compare and integrate. To address this gap, we investigated whether Self-Determination Theory can be used as a common framework for understanding the functions of music as experienced by autistic adults. We focused specifically on the support and thwarting of the basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness). Thirteen autistic adults (seven women and six men; aged between 24 and 69 years) described their experiences with musicking in a one-to-one semi-structured online interview. We analyzed the transcripts using directed qualitative content analysis (DQCA). We found that music engagement can thwart as well as support autonomy, competence, and relatedness and that Self-Determination Theory indeed offers a robust starting point for understanding the functions of music as seen by autistic adults. We illustrate how basic psychological needs provide a red thread connecting all previous studies that investigated the experience of music in autistic adults.","PeriodicalId":47977,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Music","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142988625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Isabel Fernholz, Christian Hering, Hagen Kunte, Jennifer Mumm, Andreas Ströhle, Alexander Schmidt, Antonia Bendau, Jens Plag
{"title":"Psychiatric diagnoses of professional musicians: Results of an outpatient service specializing in musicians’ health","authors":"Isabel Fernholz, Christian Hering, Hagen Kunte, Jennifer Mumm, Andreas Ströhle, Alexander Schmidt, Antonia Bendau, Jens Plag","doi":"10.1177/03057356241307570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241307570","url":null,"abstract":"Professional musicians are often confronted with multiple profession-related stressors, which may be associated with an increased risk of mental strain, but empirical evidence focusing on clinical samples of musicians is limited. The aim of this study was to examine clinically confirmed mental disorders and personality accentuations in musicians attending a musician-specific outpatient service, to better understand how occupational and person-related stressors may impact their mental health. We performed a cross-sectional secondary data analysis of diagnoses and sociodemographic data of 678 professional musicians (including music students) that were routinely collected in the outpatient clinic. Of the 678 patients, 110 (16.2%) received a tentative psychiatric diagnosis, and 46 presented themselves to the psychiatric outpatient clinic for extensive diagnostics (using ICD-10 and SKID-II). In these 46 musicians, depression (39%) and music performance anxiety (26%) were the most frequent diagnoses, followed by adjustment disorders (13%) and somatoform disorders (11%). Twenty-eight percent of the sample fulfilled the criteria of either a personality disorder or accentuation. The frequency rates emphasize the importance of targeting the mental health of professional musicians with preventive and therapeutic measures. Further research with larger sample sizes is needed to validate and extend our findings and develop individual preventive measures.","PeriodicalId":47977,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Music","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142988489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}