Can music preference indicate mental health status in young people?

• Published in: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 284 - 288
• Main Authors: Baker, Felicity, Bor, William
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2008
• Subjects: Acting Out; Adolescent; Aggression - psychology; Antisocial Personality Disorder - diagnosis; Antisocial Personality Disorder - psychology; Behaviour; Character; Child; Choice Behavior; Diagnosis; Drug abuse; Female; Humans; Individuation; Male; Mental illness; Music; Personality; Personality Inventory; Self Concept; Self-harm; Self-Injurious Behavior - prevention & control; Self-Injurious Behavior - psychology; Statistics as Topic; Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control; Substance-Related Disorders - psychology; Suicide - prevention & control; Suicide - psychology; Youth; Youth suicide; Adolescence; diagnosis; behaviour; mental state; music preference
• ISSN: 1039-8562; 1440-1665; 1440-1665
• DOI: 10.1080/10398560701879589

Objective: In the aftermath of the double suicide of two teenage girls in 2007, the media linked the themes of ‘emo’ music and the girls’ mental state. But it is not just emo music that has been the subject of scrutiny by the media. Rap music, country, and heavy metal have also been blamed for antis...