The appeal of sad music: A brief overview of current directions in research on motivations for listening to sad music

Tol, Annemieke J. M. van den

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2016.05.008

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“…None of these music listening strategies was associated with stress, and two of these music listening strategies (diversion and entertainment) were not associated with depression or anxiety. Moreover, the use of music for diversion and entertainment have clearly been related to enhancing mood or maintaining positive mood (Van den Tol & Giner-Sorolla, 2016), whereas the use of music for mental work regards contemplation and clarification of emotional preoccupations (Saarikallio, 2008), which is a process that can free a person of negative affect (Chin & Rickard, 2013; Van den Tol, 2016).…”

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Music listening as a potential aid in reducing emotional eating: An exploratory study

2018

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Emotional Eating (EE) is understood as a maladaptive self-regulation strategy to satisfy emotional needs instead of hunger. Consequently, EE has been associated with negative health consequences.Enjoyment of food and music share similar neural activations in the brain and are both used by people for regulating affect. This suggests that music listening could potentially be a healthier alternative to EE. The present study was designed to investigate associations between EE, disordered mood, and music-related mood regulation.Five-hundred-and-seventy-one participants completed measures of EE, music listening strategies and disordered mood. Associations between seven different music listening strategies and EE were examined, and also whether these regulation strategies were associated with depression, anxiety, and stress. Finally, we explored associations between music listening and EE in people with low and high (non-clinical) levels of disordered mood (depression, anxiety, and stress).The findings of this research indicated that music listening for discharge (releasing anger or sadness through music that expresses these same emotions) and EE were positively associated with one another. In addition, EE and the music listening strategies of entertainment, diversion or mental work were associated in people with low levels of disordered mood. When disordered mood was high, EE was higher, but was not associated with music listening strategies. These associations point towards the possibility of some music listening strategies being useful as healthier alternatives for EE.

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Music listening as a potential aid in reducing emotional eating: An exploratory study

2018

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“…While people outside subculture understand that teenagers are reinforced with suicidal thought and self-injury by emo music, emo fan scholars reported that these fans stopped cutting themselves after being coped by such the music [21], [37]. To identify with sad music is a part of coping skills that help people accept and make sense with negative event in their life [38], [39]. Sad emo songs were easily used as coping tools by their fans, since the lyrics are about problems with friends, family, heartbreaking, and loneliness [27], [40], [41].…”

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Overcome Discrimination: A Logistic Regression with 10-year Longitudinal Investigation of Emo Kids’ Facebook Posts

Arunrangsiwed¹,

Sawangdee²

2020

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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This study primarily aims to identify the factors that helped emo kids in 2010 move through the emo-identity discrimination and be able to obtain a certain level of achievement. Facebook is the social network that allows users to track friends' posts back over 10 years. Content analysis was conducted by using two coders to rate 1,432 Facebook posts published during 2010 until 2019, based on the variables: (1) emo-related content, (2) emotion expression, (3) being a part of fandom, (4) the group of fandom, (5) friend(s) and (6) family appearance. The results from logistic regression analysis reveal that past emo kids' Facebook posts are increasing in the contents about friends, family, and fan objects over time. However, the number of posts with emo music or emo fan object was reduced. Having social support and belonging to social group, like fandom, might help past emo kids overcome the hard time that they had got prejudiced. Future studies should develop a model or existing theory to explain the complexity of individuals' overlapping identities blended in social networking profiles.

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“…As such the differences observed between conditions could be a product of the experimenter-selected music conveying a sadder emotion and resulting in a slower shift away from sadness, in line with Randall and Rickard's (2017) results. However, the difference could also be in-part due to familiarity and preference for the song listened allowing for a faster return to baseline than music which does not have prior associations (van Goethem & Sloboda, 2011;van den Tol, 2016). As such future studies on emotion congruent music should make greater efforts to hold emotion consistent across self and experimenter-selected music (i.e.…”

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I Get Knocked Down but I Get Up Again: The Effects of Listening to Music When Sad on Young Adults

Jl¹,

Dingle²

2018

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*THIS PAPER HAS NOT YET BEEN PEER REVIEWED* Listening to music is a strategy many people use to regulate their emotions, especially sadness. However, there is disagreement about whether listening to music is a healthy way to regulate emotions, with some research finding that sad music worsens a sad state, especially for people high in rumination. To further explore the immediate consequences of music listening when sad 128 young adults (41% male, aged 18 to 25 years) were induced into a sad emotional state prior to random assignment to listening of either self-selected music, experimenter-selected sad music, or no music. Results revealed that listening to either self-selectedor experimenter-selected music led to a decrease in sadness. No difference was found between groups at post-listening. However, participants who listened to self-selected music reported a return to baseline levels of sadness, while this did not occur for participants who listened to experimenter-selected or were in the no music control. Rumination was also measured but did not moderate the impact of music listening on sadness for either musiccondition. Furthermore, there was no impact of rumination on participants’ perceptions of sadness in music. These results support the notion that listening to sad music does not worsen a sad state—even for those high in rumination—although it does appear to slow the emotion regulation process in cases where sad music is not self-selected.

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The appeal of sad music: A brief overview of current directions in research on motivations for listening to sad music

Cited by 32 publications

References 43 publications

Music listening as a potential aid in reducing emotional eating: An exploratory study

Music listening as a potential aid in reducing emotional eating: An exploratory study

Overcome Discrimination: A Logistic Regression with 10-year Longitudinal Investigation of Emo Kids’ Facebook Posts

I Get Knocked Down but I Get Up Again: The Effects of Listening to Music When Sad on Young Adults

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