Analyzing The Effect of “Edvar Music Therapy” to Stress, Mental Health, and Positive/Negative Affect

Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry & Psychology Vol.5 Issue.4

Doi:10.35365/ctjpp.23.4.07

RESEARCH ARTICLE / ARAŞTIRMA YAZISI

Analyzing The Effect of “Edvar Music Therapy” to Stress, Mental Health, and Positive/Negative Affect

“Edvar Müzik Terapi” Yöntemi’nin Stres, Mental İyi Oluş, Olumlu/Olumsuz Duygudurumuna Etkisinin İncelenmesi

Dilara Sürü¹, Lütfiye Söğütlü²

Abstract:

The purpose of this recearch is investigating the effect of music therapy treatment on participants stress, mental well being, positive/negative mood level. There were totally 55 participants whose are 27 person control group and 28 person experiment group. In this research, the Perceived Stress Scale, Warwick-Edinburg Mental Well Being Scale, and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule were used to measure the dependent variables. To examine the exact difference between pre-test and post-test a control group were constituted in the study. Therefore because of the existence of both control and experiment groups the design of the study is named experimental design. SPSS 22 program is used to analyze the data and multivariate anaylsis of variance (MANOVA) was applied to examine the statistical differences between two groups and statistically important difference is observed in participants stress level and negative mood. In addition there is a statistically important increase were observed considering positive mood and mental well being. By this finding, the effect of music therapy was supported by statistically important difference and group differences about variable levels which is used to flourish participants psychological level.

Keywords:Music therapy, stress, positive emotions, negative emotions, mental well being

¹PhD. Student, İstanbul Zaim University, Graduate Education Institute, Department of General Psychology, İstanbul- Türkiye, [email protected], Orcid id:  0000-0001-5432-3516

²Assoc. Prof., University of Health Sciences, Hamidiye Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Psychology, İstanbul- Türkiye [email protected], Orcid id: ‪ 0000-0002-6078-9512

Address of Correspondence/Yazışma Adresi: Dilara Sürü, İstanbul Zaim University, Graduate Education Institute, Department of General Psychology, İstanbul- Türkiye, [email protected]

Date of Received/Geliş Tarihi: 13.05.2023, Date of Revision/Düzeltme Tarihi: 13.09.2023, Date of Acceptance/Kabul Tarihi: 10.12.2023, Date of Online Publication/Çevirimiçi Yayın Tarihi: 15.12.2023

Citing/Referans Gösterimi: Sürü, D. & Söğütlü, L. (2023). Analyzing The Effect of “Edvar Music Therapy” to Stress, Mental Health, and Positive/Negative Affect. Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry & Psychology, 5(4): 344-352

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