Theorell Töres, Kowalski Jan, Theorell Ann Mari Lind, Horwitz Eva Bojner
Department of Music, Pedagogy and Society, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Senior Consultant in Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden.
J Voice. 2023 Jan;37(1):146.e19-146.e27. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.11.006. Epub 2020 Dec 4.
Choir singing is an activity that engages individuals all over the world with a broad demographic representation. Both qualitative and quantitative studies have examined the benefits of the activity but very few have examined the effects when someone loses access to it and stops singing.
Examining the governmental and organisational responses precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, we asked what happens when a choir singer loses all of their routines associated with regular participation in choir singing.
One national choir organization in Sweden (n = 3163) and one in Norway (n = 1881) were approached with a short survey. This comprised questions relating to the issue "what do you as a choir singer misses the most?" Each participant was asked to rate the importance of a number of elements that pertain to the experience of choir singing.
The social aspect of singing emerged as having the strongest weight in terms of perceived loss that is, it was the element that the participants missed the most. Professional singers report that they miss the aesthetic experiences, flow, and all the physical aspects (physical training, voice training, and breathing training) to a greater degree as compared to reports from the amateurs. The importance of aesthetic experiences and physical components appeared to rise with increasing number of years that an individual had engaged with choir singing.
In the Scandinavian setting, the social aspect has a stronger weight than the other components and this seemed to be more significant in Norway compared to Sweden.
合唱活动吸引着世界各地不同人群参与。定性和定量研究都探讨过这项活动的益处，但很少有人研究当某人无法参与合唱并停止唱歌时会产生什么影响。
通过研究政府和组织针对新冠疫情所做出的应对措施，我们想了解合唱歌手失去与定期参加合唱相关的所有日常活动时会发生什么。
我们对瑞典的一个全国性合唱组织（n = 3163）和挪威的一个全国性合唱组织（n = 1881）进行了简短调查。调查包含与“作为合唱歌手，你最怀念什么？”这一问题相关的内容。每位参与者被要求对与合唱体验相关的若干要素的重要性进行评分。
就感知到的损失而言，合唱的社交方面被认为最为重要，也就是说，这是参与者最怀念的要素。与业余歌手的反馈相比，专业歌手表示他们更怀念审美体验、心流状态以及所有身体方面的活动（体能训练、发声训练和呼吸训练）。审美体验和身体方面活动的重要性似乎随着个人参与合唱的年限增加而上升。
在斯堪的纳维亚地区，社交方面比其他要素更为重要，而且在挪威似乎比在瑞典更为显著。
