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Sex-specific Effects of Music Listening on Couples' Stress in Everyday Life
Wuttke-Linnemann A, Nater UM, Ehlert U, Ditzen B
Scientific reports · 20 citations
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- Cohort study (classified by our AI screen)
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- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
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- Funding
- Industry funded
- Government
- National Science Foundation
- Government
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- University or hospital
- Universität Heidelberg
- Company
- Volkswagen Foundation
- Government
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
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- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Government
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Grants
- Volkswagen Foundation (84905); Volkswagen Foundation (II/ 84905); Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (124627); Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (105314); Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (II/84905); Volkswagen Foundation (105314 124627)
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Publication
- Published
- 2019-03-19 · Sci Rep · vol. 9 · issue 1 · p. 4880
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Cited
- 35 citations · more than 93% of similar papers · 4.3× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 58 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Music Therapy and Health · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Diverse Music Education Insights
- Keywords
- Active listening, Psychology, Context (archaeology), Stress (linguistics), Everyday life, Saliva, Developmental psychology, Audiology, Medicine, Communication, Internal medicine
- MeSH
- saliva, humans, hydrocortisone, music therapy, stress, psychological, auditory perception, sex characteristics, heart rate, music, adult, female, male, alpha-amylases
4 authors
From DE, AT, CH
- Alexandra Wuttke-Linnemann · correspondingJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz; University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Urs Markus NaterUniversity of Vienna
- U. EhlertUniversity of Zurich
- Beate Ditzen · correspondingUniversity of Zurich; Heidelberg University; University Hospital Heidelberg
Abstract
Music listening in daily life is associated with stress-reducing effects on the individual with increasing effects when music listening occurs in a social context. As little is known about effects on couples, we investigated whether beneficial effects can be found in couples. Forty heterosexual couples were investigated using ambulatory assessment. Participants completed six assessments on music listening and subjective stress per day for five consecutive days. With each assessment, saliva samples for the later analysis of cortisol and alpha-amylase were collected. Music listening affected biopsychological stress markers in women and men, however in different ways: While music listening reduced cortisol in women, it increased alpha-amylase in men. Dyadic effects of music listening on stress markers were found. Men showed lower secretion of cortisol if women listened to music which was more pronounced when couples shared musical preferences. Both men and women showed higher alpha-amylase activity when their partner had listened to music. Music listening influences couples' psychobiological stress levels in a sex-dependent manner with evidence of dyadic co-variation in physiological responses to music. Interventions for promoting stress reduction should consider that women and men differ in their use of music in everyday life.
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