Assessing the Effects of Music Listening on Psychobiological Stress in Daily Life
- Autor(en)
- Alexandra Linnemann, Jana Strahler, Urs M Nater
- Abstrakt
Music listening is associated with stress-reducing effects. However, most of the results on music listening and stress were gathered in experimental settings. As music listening is a popular activity of daily life, it is of utmost importance to study the effects of music listening on psychobiological stress in an everyday, daily-life setting. Here, a study protocol is presented that allows the assessment of associations between music listening and psychobiological stress in daily life by noninvasively measuring salivary cortisol (as a marker of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis) and salivary alpha-amylase (as a marker of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)). The protocol includes advice on the study design (e.g., sampling protocol), the materials and methods (e.g., the assessment of psychobiological stress in daily life, the assessment of music listening, and the manual), the selection of participants (e.g., the approval of the institutional review board and inclusion criteria), and the statistical analyses (e.g., the multilevel approach). The representative results provide evidence for a stress-reducing effect of music listening in daily life. Particularly, specific reasons for listening to music (especially relaxation), as well as the presence of others while doing so, increase this stress-reducing effect. At the same time, music listening in daily life differentially affects the HPA axis and ANS functioning, thus emphasizing the need for a multi-dimensional assessment of stress in daily life.
- Organisation(en)
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Philipps Universität Marburg
- Journal
- Journal of Visualized Experiments
- ISSN
- 1940-087X
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3791/54920
- Publikationsdatum
- 02-2017
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 501010 Klinische Psychologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Allgemeine chemische Verfahrenstechnik, Allgemeine Biochemie, Genetik und Molekularbiologie, Allgemeine Immunologie und Mikrobiologie, Allgemeine Neurowissenschaft
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/f98467c0-b59f-49fe-957d-3064c186a621