Listening to Sutra-Chanting Reduces Bereavement Stress in Japan
Listening to Sutra-Chanting Reduces Bereavement Stress in Japan
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DOI：
10.1080/08854726.2019.1653637
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发表时间：
2021-04-03
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Morita, Takafumi
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作者：
Taniyama, Yozo;Becker, Carl;Morita, Takafumi
2011年日本东部大地震后，佛教僧侣诵经的人经常遇到幸存者，他们认为诵经本身减轻了他们失去亲人的悲痛。这项研究首次对诵经对听者丧亲压力的影响进行了实验检验。先前的研究表明，突然失去宠物会给学生造成丧失亲人的压力，而生理压力可以通过唾液α-淀粉酶无创地测量出来。我们让日本大学生饲养宠物金鱼，直到他们产生了对它们的依恋，然后没收了这些鱼，并告诉学生们，他们必须被杀。为了比较听和不听佛经的群体的丧亲压力，我们使用了心理和唾液分析。知觉压力量表(PSS)、多维移情量表(MES)和状态特质焦虑量表(STAI)中的状态半量表在佛组和对照组之间没有统计学差异，但唾液分析表明只有听经组有可测量的压力减轻。这项初步研究初步证实了这样一种假设，即听佛经诵经可以减轻日本人的丧亲压力。需要进一步的研究来验证这些减压效果，并确定这种效果主要是音乐效果还是文化/精神效果。
Buddhist Chaplains chanting sutras after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 often encountered survivors who felt that hearing sutra chanting itself ameliorated their bereavement grief. This research is the first experimental examination of the effects of sutra chanting on listeners' bereavement stress. Prior research demonstrates that sudden pet loss causes bereavement stress in students and that physiological stress can be noninvasively measured by salivary alpha-amylase. We asked Japanese college students to raise pet goldfish until they developed an attachment to them, then confiscated the fish, and told the students that they had to be killed. To compare the bereavement stress of groups listening and not listening to sutra chanting, we used psychological and salivary analyses. Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Multidimensional Empathy Scale (MES), and State half of the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) psychological scales showed no statistically significant differences between sutra and control groups, but salivary analyses indicated measurable stress reduction in the sutra-listening group only. This pilot study tentatively confirmed the hypothesis that listening to Buddhist sutra chanting reduces Japanese bereavement stress. Further research is needed both to verify these stress-reduction effects and to determine whether such effects are primarily musical or cultural/spiritual.