Changes in the Perception and the Psychological Structure of Musical Emotions with Advancing Age.

Background/Study Context: To date, little is known about how advancing age may impact perception of emotions in music. This study was designed to test whether there are age-related changes in emotional judgments and psychological structure for musical emotions. Methods: Twenty-five older (64–81 year...

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Publicado en:Experimental Aging Research Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 422 - 442
Autores principales: Vieillard, Sandrine, Didierjean, André, Maquestiaux, François
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2012
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          Vieillard, Sandrine
          Didierjean, André
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        affil: Department of Psychology, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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          Emotions
          Music
          Judgment
          Aging
          Human
          Experimental Studies
          Aged
          Adult
          Comparative Studies
          Listening
          Happiness
          Fear
          Anxiety
          Analysis of Covariance
          Correlational Studies
          Multidimensional Scaling
          Optimism
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          State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
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          Questionnaires
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
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          Aged: 65+ years
          Adult: 19-44 years
      ab: Background/Study Context: To date, little is known about how advancing age may impact perception of emotions in music. This study was designed to test whether there are age-related changes in emotional judgments and psychological structure for musical emotions. Methods: Twenty-five older (64–81 years) and 25 younger (18–30 years) listeners performed emotional judgments and free categorization tasks on happy, peaceful, sad, and threatening musical excerpts. Correlations, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), and multidimensional scaling analyses were conducted to examine the effect of age on emotional judgments and categorization performances. Results: Compared with younger adults, older adults did not discriminate the arousal difference between peaceful and threatening excerpts and showed higher association between arousal and valence judgments. The multidimensional scaling analysis indicated that the emotional space showed by older listeners did not fit younger listeners’ bidimensional valence-arousal structure. There was also a better categorization for happy excerpts among the older group. Conclusion: Altogether, these data are consistent with the view that advancing age may result in the reduction of emotional complexity and a distortion of the emotional processing in a positive direction.
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