{"id":83668,"date":"2024-02-14T08:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/?p=83668"},"modified":"2024-04-06T03:54:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T03:54:14","slug":"musics-healing-notes-traits-trump-genre-for-stress-relief","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/musics-healing-notes-traits-trump-genre-for-stress-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Music\u2019s Healing Notes: Traits Trump Genre for Stress Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-83670 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pexels-tirachard-kumtanom-1001850-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" \/>Summary:\u00a0<\/strong>Specific characteristics of music, rather than genre, play a crucial role in stress recovery. The research, involving 470 participants, identified that stress-relieving songs often share common features, regardless of their musical style.<\/p>\n<p>The study demonstrates that people who listened to music with certain traits recovered faster from stress compared to those who listened to random musical notes. This research highlights the importance of focusing on audio characteristics over genres in music therapy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Stress-relieving songs typically fall into two categories: mellow tunes in major mode or energetic tracks in minor mode.<\/li>\n<li>Participants in the study who listened to music with these specific traits showed quicker recovery from stress.<\/li>\n<li>Adiasto\u2019s research emphasizes the personal nature of music in stress relief and suggests the need for music researchers to focus on audio characteristics rather than genres.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Radboud University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feeling stressed? \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads,\u201d \u201cNothing Else Matters\u201d or \u201cBaby One More Time\u201d might calm you down again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Psychologist and music scientist Krisna Adiasto discovered that music genre doesn\u2019t seem to play a role in the songs we choose to recover from stress, but the songs that work do have shared characteristics. Krisna Adiasto will receive his doctorate from Radboud University on 29 January.<\/p>\n<p>In a society where continuous stress can lead to\u00a0cardiovascular disease, burnout, and depression, it is important to look for good stress relief. Besides meditating or going for a run, many people listen to music to relax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch shows that music combined with therapy can produce good results,\u201d says psychologist Krisna Adiasto. \u201cBut about listening to music by itself, research is unclear. Not everyone feels better after a few songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Musical similarities<\/h2>\n<p>Adiasto and colleagues examined what kind of music helps best with stress recovery and why. The researchers used questionnaires to ask 470 participants of different nationalities about the songs that help them feel better after stress. \u201cThe answers we got were surprising,\u201d says Adiasto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at past research, you would think that most people would choose\u00a0classical music, but the songs chosen ranged from hardstyle to classical to soundtracks to ambient music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A list of 1,296 songs was compiled based on the questionnaires. The researchers found that stress-relieving songs share common characteristics. Adiasto and colleagues categorize them into two groups: mellow songs in major mode, such as \u201cMemories\u201d by Maroon 5 and \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads\u201d by John Denver, and songs in minor mode that are fairly energetic, such as \u201cShape of You\u201d by Ed Sheeran and \u201cNothing Else Matters\u201d by Metallica. The songs are often performed in the key of E, with a moderate tempo in 4\/4 time.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stress task<\/h2>\n<p>Two hundred people then participated in an online experiment in which they had to perform a stressful task. Participants then listened to 10 minutes of audio, which fell into one of three groups: researcher-selected music, which was chosen from the previous two categories, self-selected music, or random musical notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who listened to researcher-selected or self-selected music recovered faster from their feelings of stress than the group of people who listened to random musical notes,\u201d Adiasto says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe this is because researcher-selected and self-selected music lead to cognitive distraction, which helps people recover from stress more quickly. In addition, self-selected music is associated with\u00a0positive changes\u00a0in emotions, which also has a beneficial effect on recovery from stress.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recommendations<\/h2>\n<p>Although the research of Adiasto and colleagues shows that listening to music by itself does influence\u00a0stress\u00a0recovery, Adiasto\u2014who currently relaxes best with classical music\u2014is cautious in making recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic is hugely personal. It\u2019s possible that a song that doesn\u2019t fit within the two categories we identified may still work very well for someone, for example because that person has very pleasant associations with that specific song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adiasto says it is especially noticeable that genre has less influence than is often assumed, which is an important result of the study. He stresses the importance for music researchers to look beyond genres and focus instead on audio characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About this music and stress research news<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-background\"><strong>Author:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ru.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Krisna Adiasto<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ru.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radboud University<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Contact:\u00a0<\/strong>Krisna Adiasto \u2013 Radboud University<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/woman-wearing-black-sleeveless-dress-holding-white-headphone-at-daytime-1001850\/\">Photo by Tirachard Kumtanom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:\u00a0Specific characteristics of music, rather than genre, play a crucial role in stress recovery. 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