Hyperventilation complaints in music performance anxiety among classical music students
| Autor: | Brigitta Danuser, Patrick Gomez, Marc Arial, Regina Studer, Horst Hildebrandt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Symptom reporting Stage fright Anxiety Positive correlation Hyperventilation Respiration Music Task Performance and Analysis Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Psychiatry Students media_common Middle Aged medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Feeling Breathing Female medicine.symptom Breathing disturbances Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 557-564 |
| ISSN: | 1879-1360 |
| Popis: | Objective: Despite the importance of respiration and hyperventilation in anxiety disorders, research on breathing disturbances associated with hyperventilation is rare in the field of music performance anxiety (MPA, also known as stage fright). The only comparable study in this area reported a positive correlation between negative feelings of MPA and hyperventilation complaints during performance. The goals of this study were (a) to extend these previous findings to the period before performance, (b) to test whether a positive correlation also exists between hyperventilation complaints and the experience of stage fright as a problem, (c) to investigate instrument-specific symptom reporting, and (d) to confirm gender differences in negative feelings of MPA and hyperventilation complaints reported in other studies. Methods: We assessed 169 university students of classical music with a questionnaire comprising: the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for negative feelings of MPA, the Nijmegen Questionnaire for hyperventilation complaints, and a single item for the experience of stage fright as a problem. Results: We found a significant positive correlation between hyperventilation complaints and negative feelings of MPA before performance and a significant positive correlation between hyperventilation complaints and the experience of stage fright as a problem. Wind musicians/singers reported a significantly higher frequency of respiratory symptoms than other musicians. Furthermore, women scored significantly higher on hyperventilation complaints and negative feelings of MPA. Conclusion: These results further the findings of previous reports by suggesting that breathing disturbances associated with hyperventilation may play a role in MPA prior to going on stage. Experimental studies are needed to confirm whether hyperventilation complaints associated with negative feelings of MPA manifest themselves at the physiological level. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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