Relationship Of Preferred Musical Phenomena Of The Generation With Their Personal Characteristics

Abstract

The present article researches the relationship of personal preferences and precedential musical phenomena of generation Y with the display of personal features such as emotional burnout, state & trait anxiety and aggression. Musical genres and trends are considered as precedential musical phenomenon revealed empirically during the self-analysis by the subjects that has the greatest impact on Generation Y. The empirical (pilot) study is based on a mixed methodology of psychometric and psychographic study of personal traits (anxiety and emotional burnout testing), precedential musical texts of recipients in their teens (retroanalysis), and actual musical preferences students of faculty of musical art. Preliminary data were obtained about significant relationships between the personal characteristics of students of generation Y and their musical preferences in adolescence and modernity. Those listeners who prefer rock music in their teens are less prone to “emotional exhaustion”, which can be explained as a resource found by this group for emotional energy gain or conservation balance. In adulthood listeners with a low level of emotional exhaustion prefer classical music. The level of exhaustion was high for the so-called "music lovers" and those who prefer pop music in their youth and modernity. This can be interpreted as the fact that music in their life did not become a channel of emotional “drainage” and a resource. A high level of anxiety was also demonstrated by respondents long-life listening to pop music. A low level of situational anxiety was shown by listeners of classical and rock music.