Levy Adi, Granot Roni, Peres Renana
The Hebrew University Business School, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Musicology Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2024 Dec 23;15:1431741. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1431741. eCollection 2024.
In stressful times, people often listen to "coping songs" that help them reach emotional well-being goals. This paper is a first attempt to map the connection between an individual's well-being goals and their chosen coping song.
We assembled a large-scale dataset of 2,804 coping songs chosen by individuals from 11 countries during COVID-19 lockdown. Individuals reported their well-being goals and also named their coping song. We applied an unsupervised topic-modeling approach to identify 15 self-emerging topics from the song lyrics, and connected them to well-being goals.
We found significant association between certain lyrics' topics and specific well-being goals. This association weakened for participants for which music is highly important. No significant patterns were found for the songs' acoustic features.
This paper posits that song lyrics, despite their brevity and presumed simplicity, can be meaningful for self-regulation of emotional states, and should receive more attention by researchers and streaming services alike.
在压力重重的时期，人们常常会听“应对之歌”，这些歌曲有助于他们实现情绪健康目标。本文首次尝试梳理个人的健康目标与其所选应对之歌之间的联系。
我们收集了一个大规模数据集，其中包含来自11个国家的个人在新冠疫情封锁期间选择的2804首应对之歌。参与者报告了他们的健康目标，并说出了他们的应对之歌。我们采用无监督主题建模方法，从歌曲歌词中识别出15个自然出现的主题，并将它们与健康目标联系起来。
我们发现某些歌词主题与特定健康目标之间存在显著关联。对于那些认为音乐非常重要的参与者来说，这种关联减弱了。在歌曲的声学特征方面未发现显著模式。
本文认为，歌曲歌词尽管简短且看似简单，但对于情绪状态的自我调节可能具有重要意义，研究人员和流媒体服务都应给予更多关注。
