Musical affect regulation in adolescents: A conceptual model

Baltazar, Margarida

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“…In general, the fact that internal agency change was positively predicted by specific internal reasons for listening suggests that people intend to use music in certain ways that will change their mood to the way they want it to be. This concept is strongly supported by the music psychology literature (Thayer et al, 1994;DeNora, 1999;Saarikallio, 2011;Van Goethem and Sloboda, 2011;Baltazar and Saarikallio, 2016;Baltazar, 2019), including previous mobile ESM research that has found that emotional reasons for listening on mobile phones are utilized to fulfill specific emotional needs (Randall and Rickard, 2017b). The model results show that when internal agency is low (mood state is not ideal), people more frequently intend to diminish the intensity of their current mood state while when internal agency is high (mood state is ideal), people more frequently intend to enhance the intensity of their current mood state, which in turn predicts an increase of internal agency.…”

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Music Listening for Supporting Adolescents’ Sense of Agency in Daily Life

2020

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Sense of agency refers to the ability to influence one's functioning and environment, relating to self-efficacy, and wellbeing. In youth, agency may be challenged by external demands or redefinition of self-image. Music, having heightened relevance for the young, has been argued to provide feelings of self-agency for them. Yet, there is little empirical research on how music impacts adolescents' daily sense of agency. The current study investigated whether music listening influences adolescents' perceived agency in everyday life and which contextual determinants would explain such an influence. Participants were 44 adolescents (48% female, 36% with training in music, mean age 14), recruited through local schools. The mobile Experience Sampling app MuPsych was used to collect brief self-reports of personal music listening experiences during daily life. This method assessed the change in the listener's perceived control over both their emotional states (internal agency), and their external environment (external agency), over 5 min of music listening. Also measured were changes in mood states, and contextual variables (social situation, concurrent activity, and reason for listening). The impact of music on the sense of agency was analyzed using multilevel structural equation modeling. There was no general increase of agency across all music episodes, but agency fluctuations were determined by specific contextual factors. External agency change was predicted negatively by changing environments, while internal agency change was predicted by initial mood and various reasons for listening, including for enjoyment, coping, and enhancing current mood state. Our findings confirmed the plasticity and situational embeddedness of the sense of agency. Music indeed can support agency, but the impact is dependent on a range of situational factors. Sense of agency can be seen as a health resource and significant part of youth development, and current findings provide new insight into when and by which conditions such affordance is likely to be employed.

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Music Listening for Supporting Adolescents’ Sense of Agency in Daily Life

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“…Different people may use different music to achieve the same intended outcome—in this case, coping with stress. The audio features of the music are only part of the story, as situations, and the listener's response all play a role in some form (Hargreaves, 2012 ; Juslin, 2013 ; Baltazar, 2019 ). It is important to consider however that listener relationships with a selected piece of music can heighten a negative state when it is associated with negative memories, or aversive conditioned responses (Larwood and Dingle, 2021 ).…”

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“…Emotion regulation is one of several functions of music listening. It is a continuous process, with a range of contextual and individual factors that play a role in how music may link with well-being (Baltazar, 2019 ; Baltazar and Saarikallio, 2019 ). Furthermore, through its effects on emotions, music listening has been found to benefit well-being among listeners of all ages (Papinczak et al, 2015 ; Groarke and Hogan, 2016 ).…”

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Music Listening as a Strategy for Managing COVID-19 Stress in First-Year University Students

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought rapid changes to travel, learning environments, work conditions, and social support, which caused stress for many University students. Research with young people has revealed music listening to be among their most effective strategies for coping with stress. As such, this survey of 402 first-year Australian University students (73.9% female, Mage = 19.6; 75% domestic and 25% international) examined the effectiveness of music listening during COVID-19 compared with other stress management strategies, whether music listening for stress management was related to well-being, and whether differences emerged between domestic and international students. We also asked participants to nominate a song that helped them to cope with COVID-19 stress and analyzed its features. Music listening was among the most effective stress coping strategies, and was as effective as exercise, sleep, and changing location. Effectiveness of music listening as a coping strategy was related to better well-being but not to level of COVID-19 related stress. Although international students experienced higher levels of COVID-19 stress than domestic students, well-being was comparable in the two cohorts. Nominated songs tended to be negative in valence and moderate in energy. No correlations were found between any self-report measure and the valence and energy of nominated coping songs. These findings suggest that although domestic and international students experienced different levels of stress resulting from COVID-19, music listening remained an effective strategy for both cohorts, regardless of the type of music they used for coping.

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“…In a later study, Baltazar and Saarikallio (2019) studied 571 participants and identified six contrasting strategic uses of music: cognitive work, entertainment, affective work, distraction, revival and focus on the situation. Clear associations between strategies and mechanisms emerged, laying the foundations for a model that integrated regulatory strategies and mechanisms as intrinsic and interrelated components of behaviour (Baltazar, 2019). In an experimental study, Baltazar and colleagues (2019) manipulated the benefits of music and strategy use in reducing stress.…”

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5. Music, Spatial Reasoning and Mathematical Performance

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2022

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Evangelos HimonidesDr Evangelos Himonides held the University of London's first ever lectureship in music technology education and now holds the country's first ever Chair in Technology, Education, and Music. Evangelos works at University College London, where he leads a number of courses and supervises doctoral and post-doctoral research. At postgraduate level, he has led and now serves the MA in Music Education programme at UCL, with courses in 'Music Technology in Education' and 'Choral Conducting, Leadership and Communication'. At undergraduate level, Evangelos developed UCL's first ever music-related course in the Institution's near two-century history, which is called 'Interactions of Music & Science' and offered under the innovative Bachelors of Arts and Sciences (BASc) programme. He is fellow of the RSA and Chartered Fellow (FBCS CITP) of the British Computer Society. As a musician, technologist and educator, Evangelos has had an ongoing career in experimental research in the fields of Psychoacoustics, Music Perception, Music Cognition, IT, Human-Computer Interaction, Special Needs, the Singing Voice & Singing Development. Publications currently number over two hundred in high-profile international journals, such as Frontiers of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Psychology of Music, IJME, RSME, Journal of Voice, Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology. Evangelos has been working on numerous funded research projects for leading UK Research Councils such as the AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, grant-making foundations/charities such as The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, RNIB, the AmberTrust and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, government agencies/departments (such as DfES, QCA) and also the European Union. Evangelos is associate editor for the Journal of Music, Technology and Education (Intellect), associate editor of Frontiers in Psychology, past associate editor for the Journal Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology xv Author Biographies (Informa Healthcare), reviews editor for Psychology of Music (SAGE), editor of the Society for Education and Music Psychology Research (SEMPRE) Conference Series, and section editor for 'technology' for the Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Evangelos has co-edited, with Andrew King, two key volumes in Technology, Music and Education, published by Routledge.As a sound engineer and researcher, Evangelos has recorded in numerous venues (including York Minster, St.Paul's, RCM), with various artists such as Derek Lee Ragin (Farinelli), Vanessa Mae (SONY BMG) and Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) and for numerous media productions (for the BBC, Ch5, Discovery Channel, RTL, CBS, PBS, History Channel).Evangelos has developed the free online technologies for Sounds of Intent, Inspire-Music and the Online Afghan Rubab Tutor. In his spare time, Evangelos likes to record music, play guitar, and handcraft musical instruments in order to raise funds for his charitable work. Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People (2015). As the evidence was collated, it became clear that much more research had be...

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Musical affect regulation in adolescents: A conceptual model

Cited by 29 publications

References 36 publications

Music Listening for Supporting Adolescents’ Sense of Agency in Daily Life

Music Listening for Supporting Adolescents’ Sense of Agency in Daily Life

Music Listening as a Strategy for Managing COVID-19 Stress in First-Year University Students

5. Music, Spatial Reasoning and Mathematical Performance

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