This study explores differences in the use of music in everyday life among diagnostic groups of a psychiatric population (n = 180) in reference to a group of healthy subjects (n = 430). The results indicate that patients with mental disorders use music more for emotion modulation than healthy controls. In particular, patients with substance abuse and those with personality disorders used music mainly for cognitive problem solving and the reduction of negative activation, whereas patients with substance abuse in addition used music not often to stimulate themselves positively. Patients suffering from schizophrenia and personality disorders more often applied music for relaxation than the subjects of the reference group. Furthermore, the degree of severity of the psychiatric disorder correlated with the increased use of music for emotion modulation, i.e., for relaxation and cognitive problem solving. Thus, the results demonstrate an increased use of music for emotion modulation in patients with mental disorders in association with the severity of the disorder.
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June 2014
Research Article|
June 01 2014
Emotion Modulation in Psychiatric Patients Through Music
Stefan Gebhardt,
Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
PD Dr. Stefan Gebhardt, Department of General Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics II, Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany, Heidelberger Str. 1a, D-69168 Wiesloch, Germany. E-mail: Stefan.Gebhardt@uni-marburg.de or PD Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Richard von Georgi, Department of Music Science and Music Education, University of Giessen, Karl-Glöckner-Str. 21D, D- 5394 Giessen, Germany. E-mail: Richard.v.Georgi@musik.uni-giessen.de
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Markus Kunkel,
Markus Kunkel
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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Richard von Georgi
International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany & Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
PD Dr. Stefan Gebhardt, Department of General Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics II, Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany, Heidelberger Str. 1a, D-69168 Wiesloch, Germany. E-mail: Stefan.Gebhardt@uni-marburg.de or PD Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Richard von Georgi, Department of Music Science and Music Education, University of Giessen, Karl-Glöckner-Str. 21D, D- 5394 Giessen, Germany. E-mail: Richard.v.Georgi@musik.uni-giessen.de
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PD Dr. Stefan Gebhardt, Department of General Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics II, Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany, Heidelberger Str. 1a, D-69168 Wiesloch, Germany. E-mail: Stefan.Gebhardt@uni-marburg.de or PD Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Richard von Georgi, Department of Music Science and Music Education, University of Giessen, Karl-Glöckner-Str. 21D, D- 5394 Giessen, Germany. E-mail: Richard.v.Georgi@musik.uni-giessen.de
Music Perception (2014) 31 (5): 485–493.
Article history
Received:
March 11 2013
Accepted:
December 11 2013
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Stefan Gebhardt, Markus Kunkel, Richard von Georgi; Emotion Modulation in Psychiatric Patients Through Music. Music Perception 1 June 2014; 31 (5): 485–493. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2014.31.5.485
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