Personality, Gender and Motives for Listening to Music

By : Uma Gupta

Page No: 255-273

Abstract
The present investigation aimed to explore motives for listening to music as a function of established personality dimensions (extraversion and neuroticism) and gender. Male and female postgraduate students who had high and low scores on the personality variables acted as participants. The dependent variables were the measures of music listening motives. The motives of music listening, included in the study, were: emotional use, cognitive use, background use, social reward, mood regulation, positive refocusing, refocus on planning and positive reappraisal; the last three motives being the specific facets of the cognitive use. Results suggest that individual differences in personality and gender substantially determine people’s motives for listening to music.

Author :
Uma Gupta : Professor & Head – Department of Siddhant Darshan, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 221005
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2018.13.02.1