Journal article
Music and mindfulness meditation: Comparing four music stimuli composed under similar principles
Psychology of music, Vol.49(6), pp.1620-1636
11/2021
DOI: 10.1177/0305735620969798
Abstract
Mindfulness meditation has frequently used sound and music as an important component. However, research on effective music stimuli is scarce. After a series of studies evaluating the most effective, useful, and preferred auditory stimuli, we were interested in exploring whether these effective musical features were transferred to new music. In this study, we evaluate our original music stimuli with three new stimuli composed under similar principles. Non-musician and musician participants (N = 114) in a multisite study evaluated their mindfulness state after listening to four music stimuli, and rated their usefulness and preference. Results from a repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) at each site indicated no significant difference in mindfulness effectiveness. Friedman’s ANOVAs for the usefulness of the music stimuli showed similar non-significant results in both sites. A mixed model among sites did not show significant differences among groups. Preference rankings were not significantly different for non-musicians, but musicians did show a statistically significant preference of the Original stimuli over Stimulus 2, probably due to sound quality. These results indicate the feasibility of transferring previously researched and effective musical features to new stimuli. Identifying the effective “active ingredients” of music interventions may be one way of supporting evidence-based practice in music therapy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Music and mindfulness meditation: Comparing four music stimuli composed under similar principles
- Creators
- Eugenia Hernandez-Ruiz - Arizona State UniversityAbbey L Dvorak - University of Iowa, School of Music
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychology of music, Vol.49(6), pp.1620-1636
- DOI
- 10.1177/0305735620969798
- ISSN
- 0305-7356
- eISSN
- 1741-3087
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100007482, name: Arizona State University, award: Faculty Research Fund; DOI: 10.13039/100007859, name: The University of Kansas, award: General Research Fund #2279091
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 11/23/2020
- Date published
- 11/2021
- Academic Unit
- School of Music; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984182077202771
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