Emotion regulation through listening to music in everyday situations
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Music is a stimulus capable of triggering an array of basic and complex emotions. We investigated whether and how individuals employ music to induce specific emotional states in everyday situations for the purpose of emotion regulation. Furthermore, we wanted to examine whether specific emotion-regulation styles influence music selection in specific situations. Participants indicated how likely it would be that they would want to listen to various pieces of music (which are known to elicit specific emotions) in various emotional situations. Data analyses by means of non-metric multidimensional scaling revealed a clear preference for pieces of music that were emotionally congruent with an emotional situation. In addition, we found that specific emotion-regulation styles might influence the selection of pieces of music characterised by specific emotions. Our findings demonstrate emotion-congruent music selection and highlight the important role of specific emotion-regulation styles in the selection of music in everyday situations.
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Music behavior differs as a matter of how emotions are regulated in general.
“given that stress [45], as well as music behavior [46,47] differs as a matter of how emotions are regulated in general”
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- Authors
- Thoma, M. V., Ryf, S., Mohiyeddini, C., Ehlert, U., & Nater, U. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Zurich (CH)
- University of Roehampton (GB)
- Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Nater, Urs M.
- Venue
- Cognition and Emotion
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-09-09
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 550-560
- ISSN
- 0269-9931 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0600
- OpenAlex
- W2074010913
- Cited by
- 176
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 7
- FWCI
- 2.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognition & Emotion (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Music Therapy and Health
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- emotion regulation, music listening, music selection, emotion regulation styles, emotional events, everyday life, music-evoked emotion
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Auditory Perception, Choice Behavior, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Music
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