Gibbs Hannah, Egermann Hauke
York Music Psychology Group, Department of Music, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2021 Mar 22;12:647891. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647891. eCollection 2021.
Nostalgic music is defined as that which evokes feelings of nostalgia through reminders of certain periods of life, places or people. Feelings of nostalgia are said to occur during times of hardship and difficult transitionary periods, such as the first COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom in 2020. Here, the reassurance of the past might have held certainty that could sustain a sense of meaning and purpose in life and influence wellbeing. The aims of the presented study were to explore the nature of music-induced nostalgia during the lockdown, by analysing participants' narratives conjured by the music and their emotional responses to them, and to determinethe extent that using nostalgic music listening as an emotion regulation strategy had an impact on wellbeing. Data was collected by means of an online questionnaire, which retrospectively investigated nostalgic music during the lockdown. Participants listened to a self-selected piece of music that they had listened to 3 months prior whichinduced feelings of nostalgia, reported their resulting emotion and the content of memories associated with their nostalgia, and completed a questionnaire rating their experienced effect of nostalgia in relation to their piece of music. Following this, we investigated the functions that nostalgic music tends to have in regulating emotions through means of a pre-validated scale. 570 participants (34% identified as male) were recruited (age years = 44, = 16). Concurrent with existing research, the findings suggest that there are significant differences in the affective and narrative content of nostalgicmusic listening in relation to which emotion regulation strategy was used, and that employing nostalgic music listening as a form of approaching difficult emotions can have a positive impact on wellbeing.
怀旧音乐被定义为通过唤起对生活中特定时期、地点或人物的回忆而引发怀旧情感的音乐。据说怀旧情感会在艰难时期和困难的过渡阶段出现，比如2020年英国首次因新冠疫情实施封锁期间。在这种情况下，对过去的慰藉可能带来一种确定感，这种确定感能够维系生活中的意义感和目标感，并影响幸福感。本研究的目的是通过分析音乐引发的参与者叙述以及他们对这些叙述的情感反应，来探究封锁期间音乐诱发怀旧情感的本质，并确定将聆听怀旧音乐作为一种情绪调节策略在多大程度上对幸福感产生影响。数据通过在线问卷收集，该问卷对封锁期间的怀旧音乐进行了回顾性调查。参与者聆听一首他们在3个月前听过的能引发怀旧情感的自选音乐，报告他们由此产生的情绪以及与怀旧相关的记忆内容，并完成一份问卷，对他们在聆听该音乐时所体验到的怀旧效果进行评分。在此之后，我们通过一个预先验证的量表来研究怀旧音乐在调节情绪方面通常具有的功能。招募了570名参与者（34%为男性）（年龄 = 44岁，标准差 = 16）。与现有研究一致，研究结果表明，在使用何种情绪调节策略方面，聆听怀旧音乐的情感和叙述内容存在显著差异，并且将聆听怀旧音乐作为应对困难情绪的一种方式对幸福感有积极影响。
