Abstract
This article analyzes the relationship between musical preference and type of personality in a large group of Brazilian young and adult participants (N = 1050). The study included 25 of 27 states of Brazil and individuals aged between 16 and 71 years (M = 30.87; SD = 10.50). Of these, 500 were male (47.6%) and 550 were female (52.4%). A correlational study was carried out applying two online questionnaires with quality parameters (content-construct validity and reliability), one on musical preference and the other on personality. The results indicate four main findings: (1) the musical listening of the participants is limited to a reduced number of styles, mainly Pop music and others, typical of Brazilian culture; (2) the Brazilian context supposes a determining aspect in the low preference of non-Brazilian music; (3) there is a positive correlation between most personality types analyzed and the Latin, Brazilian, Classical and Ethnic musical styles. A negative correlation between these types of personality and the consumption of Rock music was also observed; (4) musical preferences are driven not only by personality but in some cases they are also driven by socio-demographic variables (i.e., age and gender). Likewise, this work shows how participants make use of music in personality aspects that may be of interest for the analysis of socio-affective behavior (personality) as well as according to different socio-demographic variables (e.g., age and gender). More cross-cultural research on musical preference and personality would need to be carried out from a global perspective, framed in the context of social psychology and studies of mass communication.
Highlights
The study of using music in everyday life and of musical preferences has been widely addressed in the scientific literature, in the last decades (Schäfer and Sedlmeier, 2009; Lonsdale and North, 2011; Schäfer et al, 2013)
The first method is more recurrent in the literature and consists of requesting participants to evaluate their musical preference from a list of music or of music styles (e.g., Rentfrow and Gosling, 2003; Gouveia et al, 2008; Lorenzo et al, 2014; Upadhyay et al, 2017)
We found and the features characterizing the opposite end to Emotional Stability, i.e., Neuroticism, it can be suggested that more neurotic individuals tend to prefer music often appearing in the literature as frequently associated with anti-social behaviors, e.g., alcohol and use of illicit drugs, violence, suicide and other (Lester and Whipple, 1996; Pimentel et al, 2009; Till et al, 2016)
Summary
The study of using music in everyday life and of musical preferences has been widely addressed in the scientific literature, in the last decades (Schäfer and Sedlmeier, 2009; Lonsdale and North, 2011; Schäfer et al, 2013). Regarding this subject, researchers have adopted in particular two different methodologies, so that listeners may indicate their musical preference: verbal preference/selfreport assessment or sound preference/excerpt-based assessment (Fricke and Herzberg, 2017; Upadhyay et al, 2017). There is an underlying structure and, secondly, those are linked to different psychological characteristics
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