Abstract
Everyone experiences stress at certain times in their lives. This feeling can motivate, however, if it persists for a prolonged period, it leads to negative changes in the human body. Stress is characterized, among other things, by increased blood pressure, increased pulse and decreased alpha-frequency brainwave activity. An overview of the literature indicates that music therapy can be an effective and inexpensive method of improving these factors. The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of various types of music on stress level in subjects. The conducted experiment involved nine females, aged 22. All participants were healthy and did not have any neurological or psychiatric disorders. The test included four types of audio stimuli: silence (control sample), rap, relaxing music and music triggering an autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) phenomenon. The impact of individual sound types was assessed using data obtained from four sources: a fourteen-channel electroencephalograph, a blood pressure monitor, a pulsometer and participant’s subjective stress perception. The conclusions from the conducted study indicate that rap music negatively affects the reduction of stress level compared to the control group (p < 0.05), whereas relaxing music and ASMR calms subjects much faster than silence (p < 0.05).
Highlights
Stress nowadays is very common, so much so that it has become one of the major problems of today’s society [1]
The goal of this research was to determine the impact of various types of sounds on lowering the stress level in a person, i.e., to confirm previous research and fill the knowledge gap of stress reduction potential of an autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) triggering sound
In an experiment of this type, the decrease in brain alpha-wave frequencies and a simultaneous increase in blood pressure and pulse of the participant can be observed in a stressful situation
Summary
Stress nowadays is very common, so much so that it has become one of the major problems of today’s society [1]. The phenomenon of chronic stress is affecting more people every year [2]. Brain–computer interface technology can be a helpful tool in the fight against stress. Selye, who introduced the concept of stress, defines it as, “...a non-specific response of the body to a challenging situation.”. Stress has been recognized as a state in which a person feels burdened with the requirements or a situation he/she finds themselves in [3]. One of the most common bases for this state, the so-called stressors, are moments which require acting under pressure and are observed primarily in interpersonal contacts, the workplace and situations associated with finances [1]. Stress is generated through animbalance between environmental requirements and an individual’s perception of their skills which are insufficient to satisfy those requirements [2,4]
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