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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Development and Validation of the Brief Music in Mood Regulation Scale (B-MMR)

Suvi Saarikallio

subject

emotion regulationmittaaminenPsychometricsApplied psychologyscale developmentmusiikkiTest validityScale (music)behavioral disciplines and activitiesDevelopmental psychologytunteiden säätelyThen testMoodInternal consistencyta6131mood regulationPsychologyMusic

description

mood regulation has been shown to be among of the most important reasons for musical engagement, but there has been a lack of a concise measurement instrument for this behavior. The current study focused on developing and testing the Brief Music in Mood Regulation scale (B-MMR), a 21-item self-report instrument for assessing the use of seven different music-related mood-regulation strategies. Two survey studies (N = 1515 and N = 526) were conducted to first develop and then test and validate the instrument. The newly constructed scale showed adequate internal consistency reliabilities and correlated expectedly with measures of general emotion regulation and musical engagement. As a concise and theoretically coherent measure, the B-MMR may prove to be highly applicable for future surveys and comparative studies.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2012-09-01
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201601211236