The relaxation effects of stimulative and sedative music on mathematics anxiety: A perception to physiology model
| Autor: | Samuel Ken-En Gan, Keane Ming-Jie Lim, Yu-Xuan Haw |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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030506 rehabilitation
Mathematics anxiety Relaxation (psychology) medicine.drug_class media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences behavioral disciplines and activities Music and mathematics humanities 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Sedative Relaxation effect Perception medicine Anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology (miscellaneous) medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science Psychology Music Cognitive psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Psychology of Music. 44:730-741 |
| ISSN: | 1741-3087 0305-7356 |
| Popis: | Previous research on music and mathematics anxiety has relied primarily on self-reports without biological measurements. To address whether these parameters were correlated, we included blood pressure physiological measures, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS) in our study. One hundred and five psychology undergraduates were assigned to sedative, stimulative and “no music” conditions while completing Cambridge GCE O Level mathematical questions. Anxiety was measured pre-, during and posttest. Results showed that MARS was positively correlated with STAI, but not with the physiological measures. A 3 × 3 mixed ANOVA showed differences between the sedative and no music condition for the measures of STAI and MARS, but not for the physiological measures. Further analyses using t-tests found sedative music to elicit a pronounced decrease in systolic blood pressure and the stimulative music to have minimal effect. To explain these findings and the discrepancy with previous studies, we propose a Perception-to-Physiology model for the effect of music in anxiety. |
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