Dr Liila Taruffi liila.taruffi@durham.ac.uk
Honorary Fellow
Research has shown that mind-wandering, negative mood, and poor wellbeing are closely related, stressing the importance of exploring contexts or tools that can stimulate positive thoughts and images. While music represents a promising option, work on this topic is still scarce with only a few studies published, mainly featuring laboratory or online music listening tasks. Here, I used the experience sampling method for the first time to capture mind-wandering during personal music listening in everyday life, aiming to test for the capacity of music to facilitate beneficial styles of mind-wandering and to explore its experiential characteristics. Twenty-six participants used a smart-phone application that collected reports of thought, mood, and emotion during music listening or other daily-life activities over 10 days. The application was linked to a music playlist, specifically assembled to induce positive and relaxing emotions. Results showed that mind-wandering evoked during music and non-music contexts had overall similar characteristics, although some minor differences were also observed. Most importantly, music-evoked emotions predicted thought valence, thereby indicating music as an effective tool to regulate thoughts via emotion. These findings have important applications for music listening in daily life as well as for the use of music in health interventions.
Taruffi, L. (2021). Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23), Article 12321. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312321
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 18, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 24, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2021 |
Deposit Date | Jan 19, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 19, 2022 |
Journal | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
Print ISSN | 1661-7827 |
Publisher | MDPI |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 18 |
Issue | 23 |
Article Number | 12321 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312321 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1216850 |
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