The Relationship Between Music-Related Emotional Regulation Strategies and Wellbeing

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However, Randall and Rickard (2014) found that using music to regulate a recently experienced emotion using an ES strategy yielded a short term hedonic (positive affect) success, however, was associated with poorer long term emotional health and well-being. Thomson and colleagues also found that adolescent’s high use of diversion predicted high levels of depression, anxiety and stress (Thompson, 1994). It must be noted that both studies reporting negative associations between music use for diversion utilised clinical populations whereas the studies reporting a positive relationship consisted of non-clinical populations. Thus, it could be posited that psychopathology could moderate the relationship between music use for diversion and well-being.

Overall, it is not clear in the current literature, whether music-related ES strategies (i.e. diversion) are in fact adaptive in terms of mental health and well-being outcomes without controlling for psychopathology. Thus, the aim of the current study will be to address this by excluding participants with clinical diagnoses, and assess the relationship between music use for diversion and levels of well-being in a non-clinical population, using Lonsdale & North’s Music Use questionnaire (Lonsdale & North, 2011). It is predicted that there will be a positive relationship between music use for diversion scores and well-being scores.

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