People use music to regulate their emotions in a variety of ways. Whereas some of these strategies are conceptually and empirically distinct from one another, other strategies are not wholly distinguishable. We examined the distinctiveness among strategies used to regulate emotions via music listening. College students ( N = 274) completed an online questionnaire with closed-ended and open-ended items designed to measure their use of music to regulate emotions and other music- and emotion-related measures. Confirmatory factor analyses suggested that some of the strategies in Saarikallio’s taxonomy are not completely distinct from one another, yet correlations between these strategies and other functions of music listening and absorption in music suggested a fair amount of empirical similarity among most of these functions. Qualitative analysis suggested that, in addition to strategies described by Saarikallio, people use music to remember, to feel calm, and to match their mood. This mixed-methods research therefore suggests that both constricting and expanding prior taxonomies of strategies to regulate emotions via music could be warranted.

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用音乐来感觉更好：不同的情绪调节策略真的有区别吗？


人们用音乐以多种方式调节自己的情绪。尽管其中一些策略在概念上和经验上彼此不同，但其他策略并不完全可区分。我们研究了通过听音乐来调节情绪的策略的独特性。大学生（N = 274）完成了一份在线调查问卷，其中包含封闭式和开放式项目，旨在衡量他们使用音乐来调节情绪以及其他与音乐和情绪相关的措施。验证性因素分析表明，萨里卡利奥分类法中的一些策略并不完全彼此不同，但这些策略与音乐聆听和吸收音乐的其他功能之间的相关性表明，大多数这些功能之间存在相当多的经验相似性。定性分析表明，除了 Saarikallio 描述的策略之外，人们还使用音乐来记忆、感到平静并配合他们的情绪。因此，这项混合方法研究表明，通过音乐调节情绪的策略的收缩和扩展都是有道理的。