The Chinese version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ): Associations with personality traits and gender

Wang, Jinyu; Xu, Ming; Jin, Zhishuai; Xia, Lu; Lian, Qiaoping; Huyang, Sizhu; Wu, Daxing

doi:10.1177/10298649211034547

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“…Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ). The Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ) is a psychometric tool used to assess musical anhedonia 12,16 and, more generally, music reward sensitivity 11 , which has previously been validated across many cultures 11,[70][71][72] . It comprises 20 self-report items, with five response options, ranging from completely disagree to completely agree.…”

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Distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment

Bignardi,

Wesseldijk,

Mas-Herrero

et al. 2024

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Humans engage with music for various reasons that range from emotional regulation and relaxation to social bonding. While there are large inter-individual differences in how much humans enjoy music, little is known about the origins of those differences. Here, we disentangled the genetic factors underlying such variation. We collected behavioural data on several facets of music reward sensitivity, music perceptual ability, and general reward sensitivity from a large sample of Swedish twins (N = 9,169). We found that genetic factors substantially explain variance in music reward sensitivity above and beyond genetic influences shared with music perception and general reward sensitivity. Furthermore, multivariate analyses showed that genetic influences on the different facets of music reward sensitivity are partly distinct, uncovering distinct pathways to music enjoyment and different patterns of genetic associations with objectively assessed music perceptual abilities. These results paint a complex picture in which partially distinct sources of genetic variation contribute to different aspects of musical enjoyment and open up new possibilities for using inter-individual differences to gain insights into the biology of a key aspect of human behaviour.

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Section: Primary Measurementioning

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Distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment

Bignardi,

Wesseldijk,

Mas-Herrero

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“…) and in French (Saliba et al, 2016); an Italian translation is also in use (Carraturo et al, 2022). For the Chinese version, a study by Wang et al (2021) tested psychometric properties confirming its invariance across gender, allowing the comparison of male/ female scores when investigating the relation to personality traits and sensitivity to music reward. In the different factors constituting the BMRQ, females scored higher in Emotion Evocation, Mood Regulation, Sensory-Motor and Social Reward, consistent with previous research.…”

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“…Again, the BMRQ was used in the Italian version (Carraturo et al, 2022), and the comprehensive approach of this study is particularly focused on preadolescence as a crucial and complex transition phase, with its increases of risky tendencies and reward‐seeking behaviors. The research questions take into consideration the abovementioned results of Fuentes‐Sánchez et al (2021) and Wang et al (2021) on higher sensitivity to musical reward in adult females, investigating possible analogies with the developmental age. Additionally, to what extent does musical training affect and enhance pleasurable responses, and vice versa does higher sensitivity to reward encourage commitment to musical learning?…”

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“The two voices,” or more? Music and gender from myth and conquests to the neurosciences

Majno¹

2023

J of Neuroscience Research

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Music is a unique phenomenon, constantly eliciting interest from a variety of viewpoints, several of which intersect the universal trait of musicality with sex/gender studies and the neurosciences. Its unparalleled power and physical, social, aesthetic, as well as cognitive, emotional and clinical ramifications make it a specially promising terrain for studies and reflections on sex and gender differences and their impact. This overview wishes to enhance awareness of such issues, also fostering an interdisciplinary exchange between the natural sciences, the humanities, and the arts. Over the centuries, different associations of music with the feminine gender have contributed to a pendulum between progressive recognition and stereotypical setbacks requiring to be overcome. Against this backdrop, music‐related neurophysiological and psychological studies on sex and gender specificities are reviewed in their multiple approaches and results, exposing or questioning differences in structural, auditory, hormonal, cognitive, and behavioral areas, also in relation to abilities, treatment, and pedagogy. Thus, the bridging potential of music as universal yet diverse language, art, and practice, recommends its gender‐aware integration into education, protective endeavors, and therapeutic interventions, to promote equality and well‐being.

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“…After hearing each excerpt, participants wrote down the story they imagined and completed the Narrative Engagement Scale (NES) (Margulis, 2017) in which they rated the ease, clarity, and vividness of the imagined story. To test the hypothesis that age and musical engagement would affect imagined content for each culture, we applied cross-linguistically validated individual difference measures for musical background and training, perceptual skills, emotional engagement, and reward sensitivity in addition to collecting demographic variables on both groups of participants (Cardona et al, 2022; Lin et al, 2021; Müllensiefen et al, 2014; Wang et al, 2023). By combining these individual differences measures with tools from natural language processing (NLP) to analyze the content of the stories, the present work addresses hypothesized differences in music-evoked imaginings both within and between cultures.…”

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Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.

Loui,

Kubit,

et al. 2023

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Human imagination is generative and creative yet deeply rooted in culture and familiarity. Recent studies have quantified the effects of culture on stories that are imagined during music listening, but the music used in previous work was always drawn from a tradition familiar to participants from at least one of the cultures. Here we report the first study of imagined stories to music written in a musical system that is novel to participants from each culture, thus allowing for a direct comparison of narratives prompted by the same set of excerpts that is comparably unfamiliar to both groups. Music composed in the Bohlen–Pierce scale was presented to participants from two geographically defined cultures: Boston, United States and Beijing, China. We also examined how individual differences, such as in musicality and sensitivity to musical reward, might affect narrative engagement and semantic content of the imagined stories as measured by tools from natural language processing. Results showed that semantic spaces of music-evoked imaginings differed between Boston and Beijing cohorts. While both cultures were similarly engaged by the story response task, differences emerged in the semantic content of the imagined stories. Boston participants who reported being more absorbed by music wrote more unconventional stories, whereas Beijing participants who reported more emotional responses to music wrote more conventional stories. These results reveal the roles of culture and individual differences in modes of narrative engagement and imagination during music listening.

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The Chinese version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ): Associations with personality traits and gender

Cited by 10 publications

References 63 publications

Distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment

Distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment

“The two voices,” or more? Music and gender from myth and conquests to the neurosciences

Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.

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