Krause, Amanda, McFerran, Katrina, Osborne, Margaret, and Lam, Asia (2025) How everyday music listening can promote goal achievement. In: [Presented at the Psychological Science and Well-Being Conference 2025]. From: Psychological Science and Well-Being Conference 2025, 13-15 January 2025, Singapore.

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Research conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic has shown a marked decrease in psychological well-being amongst university students. As such, there is an urgent need for ϐinancially viable and accessible strategies to support well-being. Research has demonstrated that listening to music can promote well-being, through created feelings of social connection, mood management, and goal achievement. However, it is unclear how contextual details of everyday listening, such as people’s listening intentions, impact music listening’s ability to support self-regulation and well-being. Therefore, the aim of this study is to use experience sampling methodology (ESM) to investigate factors underpinning how music listening can assist listeners with self-regulation. Participants (N = 16 to date) were asked to install a mobile-ESM application, MuPsych, on their phone. For two weeks, when an individual played music, they were prompted to complete a short survey (at 0, 5, and 20 minutes into their listening). These surveys asked participants about their listening goals, mood, well-being, to rate the music (e.g., how much the liked the music and how much control they had over the music), and to describe the context (e.g., the number of people listening, the location). Data collection is underway. It is anticipated that ϐindings will offer valuable insights into the relationships between mobile music listening practices, self-regulation intentions, and the consequences of listening. Findings have implications concerning programs, strategies, and recommendations for supporting University student well-being in the post-pandemic recovery period.

Item ID:	84438
Item Type:	Conference Item (Abstract / Summary)
Keywords:	everyday music listening, experience sampling methodology, psychological well-being, self-regulation, flourishing
Date Deposited:	13 Jan 2025 22:47
FoR Codes:	52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5205 Social and personality psychology > 520505 Social psychology @ 50% 36 CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING > 3603 Music > 360301 Music cognition @ 50%
SEO Codes:	28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280121 Expanding knowledge in psychology @ 50% 13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1301 Arts > 130102 Music @ 50%
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