Over the past two decades, there has been a major increase in research into the effects of
the arts on health and well-being, alongside developments in practice and policy activities in …

Music interventions are used for stress reduction in a variety of settings because of the
positive effects of music listening on both physiological arousal (eg, heart rate, blood …

Music can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance positive mood, and facilitate social bonding.
However, little is known about the role of music and related personal or cultural …

Musical behaviours are universal across human populations and, at the same time, highly
diverse in their structures, roles and cultural interpretations. Although laboratory studies of …

Musical life became disrupted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many musicians and
venues turned to online alternatives, such as livestreaming. In this study, three livestreamed …

In “Flourish,” Martin Seligman maintained that the elements of well-being consist of “PERMA:
positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment.” Although the …

The fields of music, health, and technology have seen significant interactions in recent years
in developing music technology for health care and well-being. In an effort to strengthen the …

Building on her earlier work,'The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of
Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and …

The social surrogacy hypothesis holds that people resort to temporary substitutes, so-called
social surrogates, if direct social interaction is not possible. In this exploratory study, we …

Objective Given that music listening often occurs in a social context, and given that social
support can be associated with a stress-reducing effect, it was tested whether the mere …