Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence
Taruffi L
International journal of environmental research and public health · 18 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- University or hospital
- Freie Universität Berlin
- University or hospital
- Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin
Based on 2 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2021-11-24 · Int J Environ Res Public Health · vol. 18 · issue 23 · p. 12321
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Cited
- 36 citations · more than 88% of similar papers · 2.2× the field average
- References
- 95 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Mind wandering and attention · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- Mind-wandering, Active listening, Psychology, Everyday life, Experience sampling method, Valence (chemistry), Music and emotion, Mood, Cognitive psychology, Music psychology, Cognition, Music education, Social psychology, Music, Communication
- MeSH
- humans, emotions, affect, auditory perception, music, laboratories
1 author
From GB
- Liila Taruffi · correspondingDurham University
Abstract
Research has shown that mind-wandering, negative mood, and poor wellbeing are closely related, stressing the importance of exploring contexts or tools that can stimulate positive thoughts and images. While music represents a promising option, work on this topic is still scarce with only a few studies published, mainly featuring laboratory or online music listening tasks. Here, I used the experience sampling method for the first time to capture mind-wandering during personal music listening in everyday life, aiming to test for the capacity of music to facilitate beneficial styles of mind-wandering and to explore its experiential characteristics. Twenty-six participants used a smart-phone application that collected reports of thought, mood, and emotion during music listening or other daily-life activities over 10 days. The application was linked to a music playlist, specifically assembled to induce positive and relaxing emotions. Results showed that mind-wandering evoked during music and non-music contexts had overall similar characteristics, although some minor differences were also observed. Most importantly, music-evoked emotions predicted thought valence, thereby indicating music as an effective tool to regulate thoughts via emotion. These findings have important applications for music listening in daily life as well as for the use of music in health interventions.
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