Tune Yourself In: Valence and Arousal Preferences in Music-Listening Choices From Adolescence to Old Age
Tune Yourself In: Valence and Arousal Preferences in Music-Listening Choices From Adolescence to Old Age
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DOI：
10.1037/dev0000362
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发表时间：
2017-09-01
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4
通讯作者：
Riediger, Michaela
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作者：
Cohrdes, Caroline;Wrzus, Cornelia;Riediger, Michaela
在之前的研究中，与年轻人相比，老年人更愿意将自己的短暂情绪调节到愉快和平静的状态。然而，这些动机差异是否也反映在监管行为中，以及这种行为在情感变化方面是否有效，尚不清楚。为了解决这些问题，我们进行了三项研究，样本年龄范围从青春期到老年。在研究 1 中，我们针对不同音乐风格、起源日期和情感特征的音乐开发了一种新颖且适合年龄的音乐浏览范例。在两种不同的情感相关情况下，即在研究 2 中的情绪诱导之后和在研究 3 中即将与陌生人讨论之前，花在听不同效价和唤醒水平的自选音乐上的时间可以作为情感调节偏好的指标。正如预测的那样，在这两项研究中，我们发现与年轻人相比，老年人对具有正效价和低唤醒水平的音乐有更高的偏好。此外，音乐聆听作为情感调节策略的功效得到了支持，因为个人当前的情感在听音乐之前和之后发生了显着变化（研究 2 和 3），而在听中性非音乐声音的主动对照组中情况并非如此（研究 3）。这些结果通过证明音乐浏览范式作为不同年龄段个体情感调节偏好的行为指标的实用性，扩展了先前关于情感调节的研究。它们还提供了音乐选择行为的年龄差异以及情感调节效应的证据。
In previous studies, older as compared with younger individuals were more strongly motivated to regulate their momentary affect toward pleasant and calm states. Whether these motivational differences are also reflected in regulatory behavior and whether this behavior is efficient in terms of affect change, however, is unclear. To address these issues, we conducted 3 studies with samples ranging in age from adolescence to old adulthood. In Study 1, we developed a novel and age-fair music browsing paradigm for music of diverse musical styles, dates of origin, and affective characteristics. The time spent listening to self-selected music with varying levels of valence and arousal served as an indicator of affect-regulatory preferences in 2 different affectively relevant situations, namely after mood induction in Study 2 and before an upcoming discussion with a stranger in Study 3. As predicted, we found a higher preference for music with positive valence and low arousal in older as compared with younger individuals in both studies. Additionally, the efficacy of music listening as an affect-regulatory strategy was supported because individuals' current affect significantly changed from before to after music listening (Studies 2 and 3), whereas that was not the case in an active control group listening to neutral nonmusical sounds (Study 3). These results extend previous research on affect regulation by demonstrating the utility of the music browsing paradigm as a behavioral indicator of affect-regulatory preferences in individuals from various age groups. They also provide evidence for age differences in, and affect-regulatory effects of, music-choice behavior.