Music Preference and Emotion Regulation in Young Adults

Music is a ubiquitous part of everyday life and greatly influences individuals in their day-to-day activities. The present paper studies the relationship between Music Preference and Emotion Regulation. A sample of 114, aged between 18-25 years participated in the study. Short Test Of Music Preferences (STOMP) by Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2003) and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) by Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (2003) were used to measure the variables. Pearson’s correlation coefficient and independent sample t-test were used for statistical analysis of data. The results found that music preference dimensions were positively correlated to emotion regulation dimensions and vice versa except Intense & Rebellious music, as it was not found to be correlated