Abstract
Engagement with music has the capacity to influence and be influenced by affective experiences. Although cross-sectional and experimental research provides evidence that music engagement is related to higher positive and lower negative affect, few studies have investigated the bidirectional nature of this relationship over time. The present longitudinal study, therefore, examined the interplay between passive and active music engagement and affect using random-intercept cross-lagged panel analysis. Over 8 weeks in 2022, 428 participants regularly engaging with music completed weekly online surveys on quantitative music engagement (i.e., time spent with music listening/music making), qualitative music engagement (i.e., use of music listening/music making for mood regulation) as well as positive and negative affect. Results revealed cross-lagged associations between music engagement and negative affect, but not positive affect: regarding quantitative music engagement, more time spent with music listening (but not music making) was related to less negative affect than usual at the following measurement. Results on qualitative music engagement showed that weeks with more negative affect than usual were followed by an increased use of music listening and music making for mood regulation. Our findings emphasize the bidirectional nature of the relationship between music engagement and affect corroborating the significant role of music engagement in affect regulation. Future research should replicate these findings with a more diverse sample regarding age, sex, ethnicity, education, and socioeconomic status. Additionally, further studies could examine individual and contextual factors and adequate measurement time points for further investigation of bidirectional affective processes involved in music engagement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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