A study on the reducing stress of music listening by measuring heart rate

Abstract

Humans are subject to many types of stress. Stress affects various nervous system transit hormone systems and weakens the immune system and weakens the autonomic nervous system, which slows the activities of various organs. It is already well known that those who overcome stress well have a strong immune system and overcome disease. It also achieves many successful results. This fact indicates how important it is to reduce stress. Music listening is one of the great ways to reduce stress. Music listening is known to stimulate the autonomic nervous system and the motor center to reduce complaints, edgy, and tension. Music listening also has an effect on mental treatment such as post-traumatic stress. In this paper, we tried to find out whether music listening helps to reduce stress through HRV (Heart Rate Variability) SDNN (Standard Deviation N-N Interval) obtained from heart rate measurement. Five subjects measured the heart rate by listening to four experiment song. The SDNN value increased when four of five people listened to all the experiment song. In the remaining one, the SDNN value was lowered for only one experiment song, and for the remaining three songs, the SDNN value was increased. However, the degree of reducing stress was different according to the musical preference of each individual. The results of this experiment showed that listening to music according to taste helps to reduce stress.