The effect of adaptive music playing system on emotion regulation

We live in an industrially polluted environment, surrounded with stress and negative emotions. Since music has the marvelous power of arousing different moods and regulating emotions depending on the features of musical elements, people could be prescribed specific kinds of music to help alleviate their symptoms. Therefore, refer to entrainment, iso, and diversion principles of music therapy stated by Campbell , the investigator developed an Adaptive Music Playing System base on the two-dimensional arousal-valence emotion model. The purposes of this study were: (1) to explore the two-dimensional emotional responses of subjects when listening to specific music; (2) to survey the effects of gender, music preference on their perception of musical emotions; (3) to compare the relativities of various musical elements with musical emotions; (4) to detect the healing effect of adaptive music playing system. 56 college students were recruited as subjects in this study. Subjects imported their instant mood value, ...