Challenging the presumptive link between musical preference and aggression

Author:

Merz Zachary C1ORCID,Lace John W2,Coleman Thatcher R3ORCID,Roth Robert M4

Affiliation:

1. LeBauer Department of Neurology, The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Greensboro, NC, USA

2. Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

3. Department of Allied Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

4. Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, DHMC, Lebanon, NH, USA

Abstract

The present study sought to examine the relationship between musical preference and aspects of aggression in a United States of America community sample. A total of 400 adults ( M age = 34.14; 50.3% female) completed the Short Test of Musical Preference, Revised (STOMP-R), the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed., DSM-5) Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure, and several aggression questionnaires aimed at assessing normative beliefs about aggression and prior history of aggressive behaviors. Results of correlational analyses revealed significant relationships between all examined musical genres and psychopathology. Results of regression analyses revealed the presence of psychopathology as the main contributor to scores across aggression measures, with age and gender variables also varying in their significance. Importantly, preference for intense and rebellious musical genres (i.e., alternative, rock, punk, and heavy metal) was a nonsignificant predictor across all aggression questionnaires. As such, the current results do not support a correlational nor causal link between intense and/or rebellious musical preference and aggressive behaviors.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Psychology (miscellaneous),Music

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