Lo Lap Yan, Lam Hiu Ting, Au Ka Hei Brigit, Lin Muriel
Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong.
Curr Issues Personal Psychol. 2024 Jan 4;12(2):152-160. doi: 10.5114/cipp/174680. eCollection 2024.
Music listening has been found to be effective in reducing stress levels with different participant samples. Relatively little evidence has been obtained from people with high neurotic tendency (HNT), whose dispositional psychological characteristics might dampen the effect of music listening. This study therefore tried to examine the immediate effect of music listening in reducing stressful feelings of participants with either high or low neurotic tendency.
Seventy-nine undergraduate participants who were identified as having either HNT or low neurotic tendency (LNT) accomplished a stressful task before listening to a comforting music piece. Negative affect (NA) scores and heart rate were measured at different phases.
Results in a within-subjects analysis showed that the stressor and music listening could significantly alter the stressful feeling of both participant groups. Although the percentage changes in heart rate were similar between the groups, the changes of NA score which were measured after either the stressful task or the music listening session were consistently lower in the HNT group than the LNT group.
The divergence revealed a loose connection between the subjective feelings and the bodily changes in the HNT group, which could be important for clinicians and practitioners to take into consideration in psychology when evaluating the stressful feelings for their clients with HNT.
研究发现，聆听音乐对于不同的参与者样本都能有效减轻压力水平。然而，从具有高神经质倾向（HNT）的人群中获得的相关证据相对较少，这类人群的性格心理特征可能会削弱聆听音乐的效果。因此，本研究试图探究聆听音乐对高神经质倾向或低神经质倾向参与者减轻压力感受的即时效果。
79名被认定为具有高神经质倾向或低神经质倾向（LNT）的本科参与者在聆听一段舒缓音乐之前完成了一项压力任务。在不同阶段测量了消极情绪（NA）得分和心率。
受试者内分析结果显示，压力源和聆听音乐均能显著改变两组参与者的压力感受。尽管两组之间心率的百分比变化相似，但在压力任务或音乐聆听环节之后测量的NA得分变化，高神经质倾向组始终低于低神经质倾向组。
这种差异揭示了高神经质倾向组主观感受与身体变化之间的松散联系，这对于临床医生和心理学从业者在评估高神经质倾向客户的压力感受时具有重要的参考意义。
