Kirk, R. orcid.org/0000-0001-5499-0271, Panoutsos, G., van de Werken, M. et al. (1 more author) (Submitted: 2024) The relative contributions of subjective and musical factors in music for sleep. [Preprint - PsyArXiv] (Submitted)
Abstract
Previous research into music for sleep has focused on describing the types of musical characteristics associated with such music (Kirk & Timmers, in press; Scarratt et al., 2023). The current study aimed to increase understanding of sleep music by investigating subjective perceptions of listeners associated with music that is considered sleep inducing, including conceptualisations related to arousal, emotions, and distraction (Jespersen & Vuust, 2012). Musical features of the stimuli presented were extracted to compare the relative contribution of subjective and objective aspects. Our results reveal differing but important roles for valence and arousal, and highlight notions of comfort, liking, and dissociation that attribute to music that is most sleep inducing. The musical properties of sleep music conformed with previous research (Jespersen et al., 2022), with an additional emphasis on brightness (Kirk & Timmers, in press), however the subjective ratings overshadowed the musical features in predicting what music was most sleep inducing. Our findings have implications for how music used to facilitate sleep is selected and highlight the importance of personalisation.
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Item Type: | Preprint |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). This preprint is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Music; Creative Arts and Writing; Sleep Research; Basic Behavioral and Social Science; Behavioral and Social Science |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Music (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 2686055 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2024 11:54 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2024 11:54 |
Status: | Submitted |
Publisher: | Center for Open Science |
Identification Number: | 10.31234/osf.io/rp45d |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:215330 |
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