Stress and Music

How Does Music Affect Stress Levels?

When people are stressed, they tend to listen to music in order to lower their stress levels. But how much does music actually lower stress? For this study, we had participants read a story while listening to two different genres of music and at two different volumes to find out the effect they have on stress.

Music Genre (Calm and Rock)

• Construct definition
  • The music genre that we used and had participants listen to for the study.
• Operational definition
  • We measured this variable by how the participants answered the survey questions.

Music Volume (loud or soft)

• Construct definition
  • The volume that the participants listened to the music.
• Operational definition
  • We measured this variable by how the participants answered the survey.

Song length

• Construct definition
  • The amound of time participants listened to the selected music
• Operational definition
  • We measured this variable by searching for a song that’s a minute or less.

Hypotheses

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Discussion

• One limitation of the study is that people might be biased towards certain types of music when making their choices
• One strength of the study is that it’s unique from others by focusing on both music an volume.
• One implication of the study is that loud rock music causes more stress than soft, calm music.

Stress is calmed through calm music

• If you want to calm the stress in your life, listen to calming music.