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Individual differences in the strength of music preference are among the most intricate psychological phenomena. While one person gets by very well without music, another person needs to listen to music every day and spends a lot of temporal and financial resources on listening to music, attending concerts, or buying concert tickets. Where do these differences come from? The hypothesis presented in this article is that the strength of music preference is mainly informed by the functions that music fulfills in people’s lives (e.g., to regulate emotions, moods, or physiological arousal; to promote self-awareness; to foster social relatedness). Data were collected with a diary study, in which 121 respondents documented the goals they tried to attain and the effects that actually occurred for up to 5 music-listening episodes per day for 10 successive days. As expected, listeners reporting more intense experience of the functional use of music in the past (1) had a stronger intention to listen to music to attain specific goals in specific situations and (2) showed a larger overall strength of music preference. It is concluded that the functional effectiveness of music listening should be incorporated in existing models and frameworks of music preference to produce better predictions of interindividual differences in the strength of music preference. The predictability of musical style/genre preferences is also discussed with regard to the present results.

Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2007

Individual differences in the strength of music preference are among the most intricate psychological phenomena. While one person gets by very well without music, another person needs to listen to music every day and spends a lot of temporal and financial resources on listening to music, attending concerts, or buying concert tickets. Where do these differences come from? The hypothesis presented in this article is that the strength of music preference is mainly informed by the functions that music fulfills in people’s lives (e.g., to regulate emotions, moods, or physiological arousal; to promote self-awareness; to foster social relatedness). Data were collected with a diary study, in which 121 respondents documented the goals they tried to attain and the effects that actually occurred for up to 5 music-listening episodes per day for 10 successive days. As expected, listeners reporting more intense experience of the functional use of music in the past (1) had a stronger intention to listen to music to attain specific goals in specific situations and (2) showed a larger overall strength of music preference. It is concluded that the functional effectiveness of music listening should be incorporated in existing models and frameworks of music preference to produce better predictions of interindividual differences in the strength of music preference. The predictability of musical style/genre preferences is also discussed with regard to the present results.

Inhalt dieser Arbeit sind Entwurf und Umsetzung eines Testsystems, das der Befragung menschlicher Probanden zu psychoakustischen Fragestellungen dienen soll. Zu diesem Zweck soll es sowohl das Erstellen und Verwalten von Testszenarien als auch die Befragung registrierter Probanden selbst realisieren. Einzelnen Testfragen können dabei variabel lange Sounddateien zugewiesen werden. Die Speicherung der Fragebögen sowie der erhobenen Daten erfolgt mit Hilfe eines Datenbanksystems. Dabei liegt das Hauptaugenmerk auf einer flexiblen Fragebogenerstellung, um dem Fragesteller genügend Freiraum im Design einräumen zu können.

Univ., Phil. Fak. II, Diss.--Halle, 2006.

Diss.--Phil.-Fak.--Heidelberg--Universität, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 193-222.