Mental Health Music Benefits

Sources

Emotion Regulation

Thesis

Emotion regulation is substantial regarding mental health; this benefit can be expressed in different ways.

Connectedness

Listening to music is an emotion-regulation strategy that affects the cognitive process, which explains why it plays a key role in the increase of well-being in people (Garrido et al. 7).

Music can help trigger people to recall strategies that help them regulate emotions: acceptance, problem-solving, reappraisal, avoidance, rumination, and suppression, all of which are essential to mental health explaining why it is so impactful (Miranda 2-3).

The feeling of being connected can change people from feeling lonely to feeling like they have a purpose; music often helps people create this change.

As young adults listen to music daily, their mental health improves by helping to regulate their emotions, giving them a sense of connectedness, as well as evoking powerful emotions.

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Chmiel, Anthony, et al. “Creativity in Lockdown: Understanding How Music and the Arts Supported Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Age Group.” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13, 06 Oct. 2022, pp. 1-18. Scopus, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993259.

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Experimenting with different feelings and music is a good way to find identity and mental health improvements it helps people feel more cheerful, feel a sensation of being relaxed, and feel connected to others (Chmiel et al. 14).

After listening to music, people feel a sense of connectedness with they lyrics and the people they are surrounded with after listening to the music that makes them feel seen (Garrido et al. 8).

Introduction to the Issue

Mental health is an ongoing subject matter among people all over the world; music is listened to by many people globally as well, both attune with another in ways most people do not thing about.

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Personality plays an extensive part in how people process music and how results may vary; another thing that contributes to the results would be the strategies used to regulate emotions while people listen (Gupta and Singh 3).

The experimental and theoretical trials regarding music and mental health issues have been investigated, including the effects of listening to music and to what extent, especially in evoking strong emotions to improve moods (Fuentes-Sanchez et al. 2).

Mental Health Benefits of Music Listening in Young Adults

Izzie Baksis

EN 102-603

Professor Schwartz

25 April 2023

Emotion Stimulation

Conclusion

Emotions can be intensifies while listening to music because it tunes out all the extra distractions and causes people to have fewer outside impacts, improving moods because they are focused on the music itself.

Discussion to Counterargument

Counterargument

Emotions are beneffitted while listneing to music from emotion-regulation strategies, emotions being intensified, and the feeling connectedness; all are attributed to the improvement of mental health in young adults. Sources of activities and tools that benefit mental health need to keep being researched because of intensity of the mental health issue in our world. Music listening is one that provides many benefits.

Listening to music can provide many different benefits for mental health, while the counterargument is music listening can promote some negative behavioral effects.

Music is one of the most powerful ways the auditory system is stimulated, thus causes powerful evocation of emotions, in which "facilitate beneficial effects of psychological" health (Gupta and Singh 2).

Emotional experience is driven by music, but research shows that efforts of trying to find ways in which music increases affective emotional outlooks by expressing positive effects and trying to reduce negative ones, can be overlooked (Blasco-Magraner et al. 3).

While the aggression of listening to music is a real disadvantage; aggression only occurs when there are specific conditions being contributed and can be counteracted by remotion-regulation strategies. If positive emotion-regulation strategies are created, it reduces difficult emotions, therefore, negative impacts could be counteracted (Garrido et al. 7). Listening to music can consist of strategies that are tied with an increase of emotional stability as well as mental health in general (Miranda 2).

Music is a situational stimulus to promote as well as inhibit aggressive behavior and stress, regarding the physiological indicators from arousal and conditions prior to listening (Groarke, Jenny M. et al. 289).

If a type of music concurs with aversive stimuli, the listener may feel overstimulated, making them more stressed out, maybe even causing an outburst or aggression; this can often occur in large group settings (Groarke, Jenny M. et al. 291).

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