Cyprus Mental Health Institute Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology 1302-7840 2667-8225 5 4 Turkish 3 N N Y 2023 12 15 Full Length Paper Analyzing The Effect of “Edvar Music Therapy” to Stress, Mental Health, and Positive/Negative Affect> Turkish Y 344 352 Dilara Sürü Turkish İstanbul Zaim University, Graduate Education Institute, Department of General Psychology, İstanbul Turkey dilarasuru@gmail.com N 0000-0001-5432-3516 Lütfiye Söğütlü Turkish Turkey lutfiyeulgeli@hotmail.com Y 0000-0002-6078-9512 10.35365/ctjpp.23.4.07 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. English Music therapy, stress, positive emotions, negative emotions, mental well being https://www.ktppdergisi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/7.makale-Analyzing-The-Effect-of-Edvar-Music-Therapy-to-Stress-Mental-Health-and-PositiveNegative-Affect-1.pdf https://www.ktppdergisi.com/analyzing-the-effect-of-edvar-music-therapy-to-stress-mental-health-and-positive-negative-affect_abstract/?lang=en https://www.ktppdergisi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/7.makale-Analyzing-The-Effect-of-Edvar-Music-Therapy-to-Stress-Mental-Health-and-PositiveNegative-Affect-1.pdf English References 351 352