Adolescents’ expression and perception of emotion in music reflects their broader abilities of emotional communication
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Saarikallio, S., Vuoskoski, J., & Luck, G. (2014). Adolescents’ expression and perception of emotion in music reflects their broader abilities of emotional communication. Psychology of Well-Being, 4(December), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13612-014-0021-8
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Background: Musical behavior has been shown to reflect broader individual
differences. However, despite the prevalence of music in the lives of young people
little is known about the mechanisms through which adolescents’ musical behavior
connects to their general socio-emotional behavior and adjustment. The current
study focused on abilities of emotional communication and investigated whether
adolescents’ abilities in both perceiving and expressing emotions through music
would be reflective of their general abilities of socio-emotional communication and
interaction, measured through empathy and conduct problems. Due to the lack of
previous research the study was mainly exploratory, but we expected accurate and
congruent perception and expression of musical emotions to correlate positively
with higher empathy and negatively with conduct problems.
Method: Sixty-one 14-year-olds (45 female, mean age 14.72) were given three
music-related tasks that assessed emotion perception and emotion expression
through music. Participants also filled in self-report scales for empathy (perspective
taking and empathic concern) and conduct problems (externalized symptoms).
Results: The results showed that perspective taking was particularly related to
accurate recognition of tenderness in music and congruent use of staccato
articulation for the expression of anger through music. Empathic concern was
particularly related to congruent use of slow tempo for expressing sadness and loud
volume for expressing anger and also correlated with an overall tendency for
intensified perception of fear in music. Externalized symptoms were particularly
related to incongruent expression of sadness and anger through music: the use of
staccato for expressing sadness and dull timbre for expressing anger.
Conclusion: Overall, the results preliminarily support the idea of using musical
behavior as an indicator of the broader socio-emotional communication abilities,
which in turn play a major role in adolescent adjustment and wellbeing
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