 AN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH OF PSYCHOSOMATIC IMPACT OF MUSIC OF HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTSCarmen Rapiteanu ()
No 2011/363, Papers from Osterreichish-Rumanischer Akademischer Verein Abstract: This experimental study investigated the effects of different types of symphonic music on physiological and emotional responses of hypertensive patients comparative with healthy people. Clients listened to 4 selected contrasting musical excerpts ( such as 1. Wagner - Valkiria ( 5’36” ), 2. Brahms – Symphony no 2 D major (op. 73), Part 2 : Adagio non troppo ( the first 5’ ), 3. Vivaldi – The Seasons , Part 7, Allegro ( 5’22” ) and 4.Mahler, Symphony no 5 C sharp minor , Part 4, Adagietto: Sehr langsam ( the first 5’ ). These musical pieces were selected to express different emotions and feelings ( such as : anxiety and fear, but also, heroism and courage ( piece 1), melancholy and nostalgia (excerpt 2 ), happiness and mirth ( fragment 3) and serenity ( excerpt 4 ). Values for the physiological variables of systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse-rate were obtained before and after listening each musical excerpt. Emotional responses were evaluated by a positive and negative affect scale and bodily sensations ( somato-visceral correlates of these emotions ) were appreciated by a psychosomatic symptoms scale. We measures these variables before and after each musical fragment. The basal personality traits were evaluated with Scale of Guilford- Zimmermann Temperament Survey. The research groups ( 52 hypertensive patients in the experimental group and 52 healthy subjects in the control group ) were similar in what concerns the age, the sex repartition and the intellectual level (medium / high), as well as the low usage of symphonic and chamber music (subjects without experience and / or minimal experience in audition of this music The results of this study emphasized for both groups a significant statistical diminution of systolic and diastolic blood pressure after each excerpt musical audition comparative with initial values. The pulse-rate correlated with the tempo of music, both at hypertensive and healthy people. All subjects experienced, in general, positive emotion and feelings during musical audition ( calmness, relaxation, happiness, courage, confidence ) correlated with the structural aspects of the music . Some subjects of both groups ( 13,46% of experimental group and 9,61% of the healthy people ) developed psychosomatic symptoms in the time of the Wagnerian excerpt audition . A little number of subjects from both groups presented bodily sensation during unexpectedly changes of tonality from the end of the second excerpt. We observed a positive correlation between the psychosomatic symptoms and following factors : basal emotional instability, recent affective distress and negative emotions experienced or perceived in the time of the first and the second musical excerpt audition . In conclusion symphonic music had a series of favorable psychic and psychosomatic effects, on the organism. These effects were used in the frame of music therapy to obtain a psychic and somatic relaxation, with large applications in psychiatry and psychosomatics. Keywords: psychology (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ris:sphedp:2011_363 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Papers from Osterreichish-Rumanischer Akademischer Verein Kuhn Platz 6 Wien. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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