Pychology Of Music:Research On Enhancing Subliming Effect On People’s Positive And Mood And Adjustment Effect On People’s Negative Mood

Psychology of music is an overlapping science subject intersected by musicology and psychology, aimed at studying the interrelation of music and psychology and finding out the law of it. The research content of psychology of music is very widespread, most emphasizing on the psychology state of people towards sound audition sensation, music memorizing, music imagination, music individuality, music training, music performance, etc. Psychology of music is a kind of emotional reaction generated when people are enjoying the music. Domestic and foreign research related to psychology of music mainly focuses on studying of its basic theory and music therapy, whereas seldom developing an empirical study of psychological effect of music. Through experiment of psychology of music, this research innovatively finds out that music can promote positive psychology and relieve negative mood by means of empirical analysis and exploration.Research method:Based on theory of psychology of music and related research result, this research uses piano to play the music and adopts experimental method of psychology of music, randomly selecting2648college students subjects, with1512male students(57.1%) and1136female students(42.9%)among them. Experimental procedure:First, playing19pieces of piano music to the subjects by class grouping; then, having5kinds of interview (music imagination, music cognition, music mood, music will, music personality) towards psychology of every piece of music; meanwhile, testing10positive mood effect variables (delight, appreciation, serenity, pleasure, hope, pride, peace, encourage, optimism, love) of every piece of music and10negative mood effect variables (worry, sorrow, anger, stress, anxiety, pain, fear, abhorrence, loneliness, hatred); afterwards, testing9psychological health effect variables(learning stress, relationship stress, life stress, positive affect, neutral affect, negative affect, neural excitation, physical pleasure, relaxation in body and mind) before and after the experiment, etc. Statistical analysis:adopting SPSS19.0to make multiple linear regression analysis, independent sample mean comparison, multiple mean variance analysis, and successively sample matching T test to the empirical data; adopting AMOS7.0to make structural equation modeling and multivariate path analysis towards’S mood regulation-0activation of body and mind-R humanity awakening’Based on above procedure, this research reaches following empirical analysis results and innovation exploration conclusions of psychology of music:(1) Music generates activation effect to people’s cognition, imagination, mood and personality. Take results of experimental interview of music for example:music cognition activated by Ave Maria is’religiously holy, nobly elegant, happily joyful, harmoniously beautiful, positively aggressive, serenely peaceful, tolerantly friendly, molding character’etc.; music imagination activated by I’m Really Hurt is’sad cry, departing lovers, complaining of bitter cold at night, running lovers through the rain, lonely painful girl, empty streets in rainy days, lovelorn lonely figure in the rain, lonely figure in the dim light’etc.; music mood activated by A Wonderful Night in Spring is’serenely peaceful, extraordinary refined, clearly smooth, elegantly noble, association of activity and inertia, music lingering in the air like wonderland’etc.; music personality activated by Toasting Song is’hospitable, freely active, gently outgoing, generously easygoing, positively cheerful, optimistic, honestly kind, happily peaceful’etc.(2) Music has a good soothing adjustment effect on people’s negative mood, which is concretely showed as following:different personality characteristics of different kinds of music can sooth people’s different negative mood, different kinds of music all have the magical soothing effect on negative mood, and different kinds of music have magical soothing effect on the same kind of negative mood. For instance, Revolution can sooth mood like’anger, loneliness, pain, stress’etc.(prediction rate is99.9%); Moonlight can sooth mood like ’loneliness, worry, fear’etc.(prediction rate is89.4%); I Only Care about You can sooth mood like’loneliness, stress, sorrow, fear’etc.(prediction rate is78.2%); A Wonderful Night in Spring can sooth mood like’pain, stress, loneliness’etc.(prediction rate is71.0%); Castle in The Sky can sooth mood like’worry, hatred, sorrow, anger, loneliness’etc.(prediction rate is50.0%).(3) Music has a good enhancing subliming effect on people’s positive mood, which is concretely showed as following:people’s experience of positive mood is regulated by different kinds of music, intensity of people’s positive mood is influenced by different kinds of music element, and trait of people’s positive mood is influenced by different musical characteristics. For instance, By Accident can enhance mood like’optimism, peace, pride, serenity, pleasure, delight’etc.(prediction rate is70.4%); Warmth can enhance mood like’optimism, hope, love, encouragement, serenity’etc.(prediction rate is74.1%); Letter from an Unknown Woman can enhance mood like’appreciation, encouragement, love, optimism’etc.(prediction rate is76.2%); Your tenderness can enhance mood like’love, encouragement, appreciation, hope’etc.(prediction rate is64.0%); Castle in The Sky can enhance mood like’optimism, hope, love, encouragement, peace, delight’etc.(prediction rate is67.9%).(4) Music has multiple effects of adjusting mood and stimulating potential on people, which is concretely showed as following:music awakes potential of personality, such as activating potential of happiness and suppressing potential of pain; music adjusts reaction of mood, such as soothing negative mood and enhancing positive mood; music activates psychological activity, such as initiating cognitive imagination and projecting personality trait. Take the empirical case for example, psychology of music of Ave Maria has positive effect like’awakening activity of body and mind, activating potential of happiness, suppressing potential of pain, enhancing positive mood, soothing negative mood’etc. Positive mood of it, mostly’peace, optimism, encouragement, delight, hope, love, appreciation’is enhanced (prediction rate is97.3%). Six kinds of negative mood of it, mostly’sorrow, stress, loneliness, anger, hatred, anxiety, etc’are remarkably soothed (prediction rate is95.1%).19pieces of music also enhance the level of psychological health before and after the experiment.(5) Model prediction of’mood regulation-activation of body and mind-humanity awakening’of music. Positive mood of19pieces of music has0.24effects on activation of body and mind, and negative mood has-0.19effects on activation of body and mind; activation of body and mind has0.76effects on awakening personal happiness, and has-0.44effects on suppressing personal pain; through intermediary of activation of body and mind,58%of mood experience of19pieces of music awakes personal happiness (50%for male students and68%for female students),20%of mood experience interferes with personal pain (18%for male students and19%for female students). For instance, positive mood experience of Toasting Song has0.70effects on activation of body and mind, and negative mood experience has-0.14effects on activation of body and mind; activation of body and mind has0.68effects on awakening personal happiness, and has-0.75effects on suppressing personal pain; through intermediary of activation of body and mind,46%effects awake personal happiness, and56%effects interfere with personal pain.In conclusion, experimental music in this research all has personal expression psychological effect of’activating happiness and suppressing pain’, and has mood representation psychological effect of’enhancing positive mood and soothing negative mood’. Its two-way personal expression function includes:activating optimism to sooth worry, creating peace to sooth stress, advancing encouragement to reduce loneliness, appreciating life to control anger, enhancing love to ease hatred. The experimental conclusion of this research provides significant empirical parameters and application guidance to education of psychology of music (character-training of positive psychology) and therapy of psychology of music (psychological adjustment of negative mood).Although this research has drawn above innovative conclusion, has also a lot of deficiency. For instance, conclusion of the research, limited to result interpretation of19pieces of experimental psychology of music, needs to be further confirmed by a wide range of different musical experiments. This research needs to make further studying and exploration and needs to be improved and perfected in the area of psychology of music.