状況下で生じる音楽聴取への希求と楽曲の覚醒的性格によるその相違

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The purposes of this study were (1) to find dominant factors of seeking for "listening to music" from situations in everyday lives, and (2) to compare levels of seeking for arousing music and for sedative music in the situations. College and junior college students (N=49) rated scores of seeking for music in 16 imaginary situations on 7-point scale. Subsequently, they rated scores of seeking for arousing music and sedative music in the same way. Multidimensional analysis was conducted on the rating scores, and produced 2 dimensions: "Degree of feeling the something is missing" and "level of adjustment to need in the situations." Factor analysis produced 6 factors: "to improve one's mood", "to study", "to sleep", "being comfortable now", "wake-up in the morning" and "having nothing to do." These dimensions and factors suggested that the seeking for music arose from seeking for stimuli and from thought of changes in arousal level. Significant differences between scores of seeking arousing and sedative music were found on "to sleep" factor (arousing<sedative) and on "wake-up in the morning" factor (arousing>sedative). These suggested that arousal values of music varied the levels of seeking for the music. After considerations of individual differences of seeking for "listening to music" in situations, the present results will be applicable to check clients' cognition of music therapeutic situations.