Due to an increasing concern about violent lyrical content in today's popular music, it was of interest to examine what groups of people enjoy listening to music containing an aggressive lyrical style. To simplify such a laborious project [due to the volume of people who enjoy music] the correlation between violent offender status and preference of music was studied and compared to a sample of college students. Forty participants (20 male violent offenders in a Florida State Correctional Facility and 20 male college students at the University of Central Florida) filled out a packet containing a Biographical Information Survey as well as a Violent Music Preference Assessment Questionnaire (VMPA). It was hypothesized that the violent offenders would prefer music with more violent lyrical content than the students. Surprisingly, The participants in both groups yielded similar musical tastes. There was no significant difference within the numerically judged predilections of the two groups.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ucf.edu/oai:stars.library.ucf.edu:honorstheses1990-2015-1203 |
| Date | 01 January 2000 |
| Creators | Baker, Natalie |
| Publisher | STARS |
| Source Sets | University of Central Florida |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | HIM 1990-2015 |
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