Correlation Between Personality and Music Preferences

Music has played a major role as an agent of socialization in each of my 4 decades. I know and hope that it will continue to do so. During each period music has affected my personality, shown my personality, affected my perceptions and helped me to cope with growing and changing as a person. My Looking Glass Self has compared the person in song and possibly the singer themselves to myself to gain perspective of who I was at each time. I am going to discuss each decade with the thought of how music was an agent of socialization in each.

According to researchers Christenson and Roberts, “American adolescents spend…between four and five hours a day listening to music…[which is] at least as much time as they spend watching standard television fare and more than they spend with their friends outside of school” (8). Music media influences the lives of adolescents in a number of ways. It “…alters and intensifies their moods, furnishes much of their slang [and] provides models for how they act…” (Christenson and Roberts 8). Music plays an important role in the lives of adolescents. They spend as much time, if not more, listening to music as they spend watching television, and therefore, music deserves additional scholarly attention.

II. Audience Relevance: If your like me you cant go a day without listening to music and even when your not songs are usually flowing in your head. When your walking to class, getting ready to go

“Music can change the world because it can change people” Bono. Society is an ever changing process. Because society is a collection of people, it is really a kaleidoscopic representation of what is happening in the world at that time. Music is a significant presence in society; it has been a part of the human element since the dawn of man. Throughout the centuries, music has been incorporated into the most significant and minor moments of history. People can remember events based on the song that was popular at the time. They genre of music varies as do people. The average person spends several hours a day listening to music. People use it as a major part of whatever they may be doing, or they see it just as something to fill in the silence in the background. It is not surprising, then, that music is a more powerful force on how humans think, communicate, act, possibly even affecting intelligence. Music is often used in

“Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music” (Bloom 68). While every person in the world knows this to be true, no one stops to consider whether the music society listens to is actually good for the mind. What people don’t realize is that music affects people’s morals, culture, education, laws, and the way society thinks. Music has proved to be helpful, but no one focuses on that aspect of it anymore. The people that music affects the most only care if they can dance to it.

Everyone develops their own music preferences based on their life experiences and personality. How an individual relates to a genre of music depends on how it makes him or her feel. Childhood

The function of music can be metaphorically represented as both a mirror and a window for the teenager. The idea of music serving as a mirror reflects an emphasis on the personal, including the intrapersonal and private roles that music can fulfill when there is no expectation of an audience for their musical engagement… The contrary idea of music serving as a window encompasses the social, interpersonal, and cultural functions that music naturally serves for young people.” (McFerran et al, p. 543-544).

Music is something that is heard every day by billions of people. There is a vast diversity of genres of music out there. What compels people to listen to music? What inspires artists to create it? Is there more to music than just what can be listened to? Music is a complex phenomena comprised of symbolism and power. It exists in cultures all over the world. Through music people express emotions, origin stories, patriotism, religion, and more. However, music is not a stagnant phenomena. It changes over time as history, events, and people change course. Through music, people gain a sense of collective identity in which they can relate to others that share similar experiences. Because music has the ability to connect people and make people feel

For years, music has been an important part of the lives of millions of people all over the world. Music is one of the earliest forms of expressive art and is part of many cultures. It is used by all people of different ages, ethnicities, and gender for many purposes. For many, music is a part of everyday life, being used in social situations. For others, it may be used just as a way to unwind after a long, stressful day, but can it be used to as a predictor for personality? Do people who experience high/low levels of aggression and self-esteem listen to particular genres? Psychologists have started to study how music exactly can lead to an understanding on human behavior.

1. Behavioral and cognitive science has the basic premise of how people, receive, store, and process information. With this type of science, research has been done to learn about the human emotions and the response to fear. A disorder like anxiety disorder is developed by the flight or fight reaction being overactive or the emotional phenomena. This can lead to physical changes in the body like rapid heart rate, shivers, and dry mouth. Since this is a psychological disorder, much of the treatment is pointed in the psychiatrist direction. This treatment goes over the mental and emotional health of the patient to determine the problem. Also, the treatment tries to make the anxiety disorder turn around and focus on the positive of the situation.

Music; Indefinable by words alone. It is not only something you can hear but what you can feel. It is something your soul is able to reach out and touch. Music also has the power to bring us as humans, together. It is one language spoken by all cultures, sexes, races, age and religions. Music also controls our emotions; it makes us happy, sad, angry, relaxed, etc. We also can express ourselves through music. It can affect our personality.. someone who listens to classical, like Mozart or Bach, all the time is going to be smarter and more intellectual than someone who listens to rap or metal, and someone who listens to more upbeat happier music, like Ska or Swing, is more likely to

Because of how large the genre music has, this allows for options that fit based on preference. In my experience, I would plug in my earphones, open my playlist in Spotify and listen for hours. This would happen all the time starting from the early morning of breakfast to the time I go to bed. This could vary from the intense sounds the instruments are making to that overly played song on the radio. This is quite entertaining because these type of music are what I enjoy the most. To many like myself, music is gateaway from the real world to another. It’s able to turn people feeling down to feeling content because of their pick on music. People generally pick songs that they enjoy as it makes them feel good listening to it. This is similar to my case as I pick the types of songs that makes me feel good because of how great the music

The popular culture of music has changed dramatically over the course of sixty five years. Since this time, new genres of music have been introduced, existing genres have changed, and fixed stereotypes have been associated with certain genres of music. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and is portrayed almost everywhere in first world societies, including on television, radio, at shopping centers, sporting events and in every area of popular culture. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and continues to strive and develop into more and diverse areas of culture.

What people listen to is more important for their sense of themselves than what they watch or read’. Music may express differentiation and ‘function as a ‘‘badge’’ which conveys information about the person who expresses a particular preference and consumers may hold normative expectations concerning characteristics of people who like different musical genres. Choice of music may become an extension of an individual’s identity. Consequently, identity may be regarded as a project that has to be worked on and carefully managed since consumers are continuously in the process of ‘actively constructing, maintaining and communicating their

There are different people who prefer different genres of music. Usually the consideration comes from the musical style, specific beat, lyrics, as well as the sound overall. People may be in differential to the music. However, there is always a preference in a particular genre to listen. Different groups of people enjoy different songs. There is a major chance that the person preference for any specific types of music among the other may be influenced by the ethnic, age, family, gender, peer and environmental criteria. This may be one of the reasons why someone would prefer for example hip hop in compression to the extreme death metal…and the other way around. Wide spectrum of situations in life can determine a musical variety of