Musical and religious experiences and their relationship to happiness
Musical and religious experiences and their relationship to happiness
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音乐和宗教体验及其与幸福的关系
DOI：
10.1016/s0191-8869(98)00004-x
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发表时间：
1998
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通讯作者：
M. Argyle
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作者：
P. Hills;M. Argyle
大约230名成年人，其中许多人是音乐团体或教会的成员，或者两者兼而有之，完成了旨在描述他们对音乐和教会活动的情感强度的量表。两类群体成员的隶属度与增强型量表得分相关，且相应量表之间存在相关性，表明两类体验相当相似。也有不同之处：音乐体验在大多数项目中更为强烈，包括那些传统上用于评估宗教体验神秘方面的项目。因素分析的两套项目，进一步增加了音乐和宗教的项目，发现，而社会和神秘的因素出现在两者中，宗教项目也产生了一个先验的因素，而音乐项目产生了一个因素有关的挑战和性能。牛津幸福量表（OHI）测量的强度分数和整体幸福感之间的关系很弱，尽管OHI的社会因素与音乐和宗教项目的社会因素之间存在相关性。这表明，正是这些活动的社会方面产生了福祉。超验宗教因素与幸福感有一个很小但负相关的关系。
Some 230 adults, many of whom were members of musical groups or churches or both, completed scales devised to describe the intensity of their emotional feelings for musical and church activities. Membership of both kinds of group was associated with enhanced scale scores and there were correlations between the corresponding scales, showing that the two kinds of experience are quite similar. There were also differences: musical experiences were more intense for most items, including those that have traditionally been used to assess the mystical aspects of religious experience. Factor analyses of the two sets of items, augmented with further musical and religious items, found that while social and mystical factors appeared in both, the religious items also produced a transcendental factor, whereas the musical items produced a factor related to challenge and performance. The relationships between the intensity scores and overall happiness as measured by the Oxford happiness inventory (OHI) were weak, although there were correlations between the social factor of the OHI and the social factors of the musical and religious items. This suggests that it is the social aspect of these activities which generates well-being. The transcendental religious factor had a small but negative correlation with happiness.