Music has been actively studied from the perspectives of emotional expression and body movement, but not during adolescence. The current study addressed music as a forum for adolescent embodied emotion expression. Based on prior research, we hypothesised that adolescents would be able to differentiate between emotions in their music-related expressive body movements based on valence and arousal characteristics. Participants ( N = 60, 17 male, mean age 14.72 years) played djembe to express five basic emotions (happiness, tenderness, sadness, anger, fear) while body movements were motion captured. Correlations of movement features with emotion-regulation tendencies, as measured by the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), were additionally explored. Adolescents demonstrated great capacity to use all measured movement features to express emotions: movement speed, variance, area and length all differed significantly between emotions. In particular, the results confirm the hypothesised connection of high arousal to high speed and acceleration and further suggest that positive valence relates to wider area and longer performance. In addition, adolescents scoring high on cognitive reappraisal gave faster and more stable performances. We discuss creative body movement as part of youth emotional development.

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青少年音乐表达中的情感体现


音乐从情感表达和身体运动的角度被积极研究，但在青春期却没有。目前的研究将音乐视为青少年体现情感表达的论坛。根据先前的研究，我们假设青少年能够根据效价和唤醒特征区分他们与音乐相关的表达性身体动作中的情绪。参与者 （ N = 60,17 名男性，平均年龄 14.72 岁）玩非洲鼓来表达五种基本情绪 （快乐、温柔、悲伤、愤怒、恐惧），同时对身体动作进行动作捕捉。此外，还探讨了通过情绪调节问卷 （ERQ） 测量的运动特征与情绪调节倾向的相关性。青少年表现出使用所有测量的运动特征来表达情绪的能力：情绪之间的运动速度、方差、面积和长度都存在显着差异。特别是，结果证实了高唤醒与高速和加速度的假设联系，并进一步表明正效价与更宽的区域和更长的性能有关。此外，在认知重新评估中得分高的青少年表现更快、更稳定。我们讨论创造性的身体运动是青少年情感发展的一部分。