Music as emotional self-regulation throughout adulthood

By S. Saarikallio. 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Music, Social Psychology

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Rap Music and the Empowerment of Today’s Youth: Evidence in Everyday Music Listening, Music Therapy, and Commercial Rap Music (2013, background): “Music engagement has shown to facilitate emotional regulation, where both adolescents and adults often turn to music to promote positive mood, reduce negative mood, and invoke nostalgia or solace (Miranda and Claes 2009; Saarikallio 2011; Juslin et al. 2011).”
Adaptive and maladaptive attraction to negative emotions in music (2013, background): “…term, listening to sad music may help to increase pleasure if it helps the listener to purge or process negative emotions or helps them to feel less alone in their experience of sad emotions (Levinson, 1990; Nabi, Finnerty, Domschke, & Hul, 2006; Saarikallio, 2011; Saarikallio & Erkkila, 2007).”
If you’re happy and you know it: Music engagement and subjective wellbeing (2017, neutral): “Music may be one such pathway, and has been implicated in mood regulation in previous studies (e.g., Saarikallio, 2010).”
The power of music in the lives of older adults (2013, background): “Saarikallio (2011) carried out a qualitative study of 21 Finnish adults aged 21 to 70, investigating the use of music (listening as well as active participation) for emotional self-regulation.”
How listening to music and engagement with other media provide a sense of belonging: An exploratory study of social surrogacy (2018, background): “Those reflective processes supported by music are important, because they are conducive to the construction of self-identity (Saarikallio, 2010) and convey a sense of belonging by bringing back memories of significant others (DeNora, 1999; Groarke & Hogan, 2016).”
Emotional outcomes of regulation strategies used during personal music listening: A mobile experience sampling study (2014, methodology): “While the majority of aforementioned emotion regulation studies were performed under laboratory conditions (often involving emotion induction), regulation through music listening involves a range of additional individual and situational variables (Saarikallio, 2011).”
Emotion regulation strategy mediates both positive and negative relationships between music uses and well-being (2014, background): “Music is often cited as an effective tool for exploring and regulating emotions (North, Hargreaves, & O’Neill, 2004; Saarikallio, 2011; Wells & Hakanen, 1991).”
Singing Delays the Onset of Infant Distress (2016, background): “The most ubiquitous and most important function of music listening in contemporary Western cultures is emotional self-regulation aimed at relaxation, prolonging positive moods, or discharging negative emotions (Saarikallio, 2011; Sloboda, Lamont, & Greasley, 2009).”
Enhancing wellbeing: An emerging model of the adaptive functions of music listening (2016, background): “Research has highlighted the importance of music listening for older adults (Laukka, 2007) and younger adults (Miranda & Gaudreau, 2010; Saarikallio, 2011) in promoting quality of life and managing psychological distress.”
Exploring a rationale for choosing to listen to sad music when feeling sad (2013, background): “For example, older age has been associated with decreased recognition of sad and scary emotional intent in music (Lima & Castro, 2011), but music listening also becomes more important at older age (Saarikallio, 2010).”