REGULATING EFFECT OF MUSICAL EDUCATION ON THE POSITIVE EMOTIONS CONSIDERING THE EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL CONTAGION

• Published in: Revista argentina de clínica psicológica Vol. 29; no. 1; p. 322
• Main Author: Ye, Wenhui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Buenos Aires FUNDACIÓN AIGLÉ 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Contagion; Emotional regulation; Emotions; Factorial experiments; Music; Music education; Negative emotions; Positive emotions
• ISSN: 0327-6716; 1851-7951
• DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.43

This paper aims to verify whether music education could induce positive emotions, and explore the emotional regulation of different types of music and different breathing methods. For this purpose, a 2×2 factorial experiment was designed to test the emotional impacts of two types of music (soundscape music and non-soundscape music), and two breathing methods (abdominal breathing and thoracic breathing). The test subjects were evaluated against the revised positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS-R). The results show that, music can induce positive emotions and reduce negative emotions; the most significant increase in positive emotions was observed under the soundscape music/abdominal breathing condition, while the most insignificant increase was observed under the non-soundscape music/thoracic breathing condition; the most significant decrease in negative emotions was observed under the soundscape music/thoracic breathing condition, while the most insignificant decrease was observed under the non-soundscape music/thoracic breathing condition. The research provides more empirical evidences to the emotional impacts of music education.