North Adrian C
School of Life Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Am J Psychol. 2010 Summer;123(2):199-208. doi: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.123.2.0199.
Several studies have investigated the relationship between (usually a narrow set of) personality dimensions and liking for a small number of individual musical styles. To date there has been no attempt to investigate, within a single methodology, the extent to which personality factors correlate with liking for a very wide range of musical styles. To address this, 36,518 participants rated their liking for 104 musical styles, completed a short form of the Big 5 personality inventory, and provided other data about their favorite musical styles. Personality factors were related to both liking for the musical styles and participants' reasons for listening to this music. However, on the whole these latter variables were related more closely to participants' age, sex, and income than to Big 5 scores. Thus, personality is related to musical taste, but other individual differences are arguably related more closely.
多项研究调查了（通常是一组狭义的）人格维度与对少数几种个人音乐风格的喜好之间的关系。迄今为止，尚未有人尝试在单一方法内研究人格因素与对非常广泛的音乐风格的喜好之间的关联程度。为了解决这个问题，36518名参与者对他们对104种音乐风格的喜好程度进行了评分，完成了一份简短的大五人格量表，并提供了有关他们最喜欢的音乐风格的其他数据。人格因素与对音乐风格的喜好以及参与者听这种音乐的原因都有关系。然而，总体而言，这些后述变量与参与者的年龄、性别和收入的关系比与大五人格得分的关系更为密切。因此，人格与音乐品味有关，但其他个体差异可能关系更为紧密。
