Preventing music performance anxiety (MPA): Music students judge combined Depth Relaxation Music Therapy (DRMT) and silence to be an effective methodology

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Eric Pfeifer ◽  
Christine Stolterfoth ◽  
Claudia Spahn ◽  
Hans Ulrich Schmidt ◽  
Tonius Timmermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety ◽  
Subject Design ◽  
Alternative Condition

This article presents the results of a study which focused on the application of combined Hypnomusictherapy (HMT)/Depth Relaxation Music Therapy (DRMT) and silence in preventing music performance anxiety (MPA) in music students. Participants (n=12) were divided into two groups. Each group received either 16 minutes of HMT/DRMT followed by 6:30 minutes of silence or a 16-minute seminar consisting of a moderated group discussion on silence followed by 6:30 minutes of silence. Each of the two groups experienced the alternative condition (within-subject design) with one week in between. Focus groups were held for data gathering after each session. Qualitative content analysis according to Mayring [1,2] was applied to analyze the data. Silence following DRMT/HMT was perceived as more relaxing and longer lasting than silence following the seminar. Participants reported that their distracting or depressing thoughts decreased and their auditive perception of silence changed during the combined silence and DRMT/HMT. The results indicate that the procedure can help prevent MPA.

The relation of music performance anxiety (MPA) to optimism, self-efficacy, and sensitivity to reward and punishment: Testing Barlow’s theory of personal vulnerability on a sample of Spanish music students

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santos Orejudo ◽  
Francisco Javier Zarza-Alzugaray ◽  
Oscar Casanova ◽  
César Rodríguez-Ledo ◽  
Beatriz Mazas
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Sensitivity To Reward ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety ◽  
Spanish Music ◽  
Reward And Punishment

Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a phenomenon often encountered among professionals and students who make public appearances. This article presents the results of a study carried out on a sample of music students in superior music conservatories in Spain ( N = 434). Our goal was to analyze MPA on the basis of Barlow’s (2000) anxiety theory, supplementing it with further personality constructs such as dispositional optimism, general auto-efficacy, and sensitivity to reward and punishment. Our structural equation modeling (SEM) results reveal that several of those constructs exert their effect via the helplessness factor – the central construct in Barlow’s theory – and that they likewise exert a further series of direct effects on MPA. All in all, the variables taken into consideration account for 45.6% of variance in MPA in males and of 52.1% thereof in females. This study thus upholds Barlow’s theory of anxiety, while broadening it with further explanatory mechanisms.

scholarly journals Hyperventilation complaints in music performance anxiety among classical music students

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 557-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Studer ◽  
Brigitta Danuser ◽  
Horst Hildebrandt ◽  
Marc Arial ◽  
Patrick Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety

Relationships Among Performance Anxiety, Agari Experience, and Depressive Tendencies in Japanese Music Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurara Bannai ◽  
Takayoshi Kase ◽  
Shintaro Endo ◽  
Kazou Oishi
Keyword(s):  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Japanese Version ◽  
Epidemiologic Studies ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Music Majors ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety ◽  
Experience Questionnaire

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among anxiety prior to actual performance (music performance anxiety, MPA), mental and physical negative responses during performance (agari), and depressive tendencies in Japanese college students majoring in music. Participants were 171 music majors (33 males, 138 females, 20.6±1.7 yrs). They rated the degree of self-perceived MPA before their performance on a scale ranging from 0–100%. The Features of Agari Experience Questionnaire was used to assess agari response levels during standard performances, and the Japanese version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD) was used to measure depressive tendencies. Path analysis showed that MPA levels were positively related to agari scores, which were positively related to CES-D scores. Mediation analysis found a significant indirect effect of MPA scores on CES-D scores via the agari scores. These results suggest that MPA first occurs before an actual music performance and evokes agari, which in turn may cause an increase in depressive tendencies.

Music Performance Anxiety in adolescence and early adulthood: Its relation with the age of onset in musical training

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Zarza-Alzugaray ◽  
Santos Orejudo ◽  
Oscar Casanova ◽  
Lucía Aparicio-Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Age Of Onset ◽  
Musical Training ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Practical Level

Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) is one of the major emotional problems affecting music professionals and music students; it can only be addressed on a professional basis if a more profound knowledge of determining factors is acquired. This study examines one of these factors, scarcely investigated until now: the age at which an individual began music training. The relation of age of onset with MPA is examined here in two separate samples of music students/pupils in Spain: one of 437 advanced music students (mean age = 22.64 years) and another one consisting of 209 pupils enrolled in music schools (mean age = 12.09 years). The first sample was tested with the Spanish version of the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Index (KMPAI), and the second sample was tested with the Performance Anxiety Questionnaire (PAQ) elaborated by Cox and Kenardy (1993). These two independent samples, tested with different evaluation tools, yield results that indicate a significant relation between the age of musical training onset and the individual’s currently perceived level of MPA. Those students/pupils who started at the age of 7 or younger report lower levels of MPA. The article concludes with a discussion of these results’ potential implications on a theoretical and practical level.

Music performance anxiety and perfectionism in Croatian musicians

2021 ◽  
pp. 030573562097869
Author(s):  
Ana Butković ◽  
Nikolina Vukojević ◽  
Sara Carević
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety ◽  
Maladaptive Perfectionism ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
Orchestral Musicians

Music performance anxiety (MPA) is part of every musician’s life. Individual differences in MPA have been associated with individual differences in perfectionism, especially maladaptive perfectionism. The aim of this study was to examine MPA and its association with perfectionism in a combined sample of music students studying at the Academy of Music and members of the professional orchestras in Zagreb. Based on the previous studies, we hypothesized that gender, age, and maladaptive perfectionism would predict higher MPA. Data were collected for 239 musicians (152 music students, 87 orchestral musicians, 50.2% female), who filled in Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory–Revised (K-MPAI-R) and Almost Perfect Scale–Revised (APS-R). In our sample, 28% ( n = 67) of musicians had a clinically significant MPA level. In the regression analysis with gender, age, and dimensions of adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism as predictors, 46% of the MPA variance was explained with gender (β = .14, p = .007), age (β = −.22, p < .001), and discrepancy (β = .62, p < .001) as significant predictors. Higher MPA was predicted by being female, a younger musician, and having a higher maladaptive perfectionism. This indicates it would be important to deal with maladaptive perfectionism to effectively manage MPA.

Physical Activity Helps to Control Music Performance Anxiety

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio F Rocha ◽  
Moacir Marocolo ◽  
Elisangela NV Corrêa ◽  
Gledys SG Morato ◽  
Gustavo R da Mota
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Regular Physical Activity ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety ◽  
College Music

We evaluated if regular physical activity could influence musical performance anxiety (MPA) in college music students. Levels of MPA, as measured with the Kenny MPA Inventory, and a survey about the physical activity habits were obtained from 87 students of music. The results showed that physically active musicians had lower MPA scores (p<0.05) than non-active ones, independent of gender. We conclude that there is an association between physical activity and minor MPA, and studies with a longitudinal design should be done to explore this important issue.

scholarly journals The relationship between music performance anxiety, subjective performance quality and post-event rumination among music students

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Nielsen ◽  
Regina K. Studer ◽  
Horst Hildebrandt ◽  
Urs M. Nater ◽  
Pascal Wild ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety ◽  
Performance Quality ◽  
Social Events ◽  
High Anxious ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

According to cognitive models, the negative perception of one’s performance and the post-event rumination (PER) occurring after stressful social events maintain social anxiety. These aspects have hardly been studied in music performance anxiety (MPA), a specific form of social anxiety. The first aim of this study was to analyze the development of negative and positive PER over two days following a soloist concert, depending on the usual MPA level. The second aim was to investigate if subjective performance quality serves as mediator between MPA and PER. Negative and positive PER were assessed 10 minutes, one day and two days after a concert in 72 music students with different levels of usual MPA. Subjective performance quality was measured 10 minutes after the study concert. An increasing usual MPA level was associated with more negative and less positive PER. Both decreased over time. Negative PER decreased less rapidly in high-anxious than in low-anxious musicians and positive PER decreased more rapidly in low-anxious than in high-anxious musicians. Subjective performance quality mediated the relationship between MPA and PER. These findings extend previous knowledge in social anxiety to the field of MPA and have implications for interventions aiming at reducing MPA.

Relationships Among Meditation, Perfectionism, Mindfulness, and Performance Anxiety Among Collegiate Music Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank M. Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Trait Mindfulness ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety ◽  
Lower Performance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Socially Prescribed Perfectionism ◽  
Collegiate Level ◽  
And Performance

I examined the use of meditation practices among collegiate-level musicians ( N = 255), along with the degree to which these practices contributed to music performance anxiety (MPA) when controlling for trait perfectionism and trait mindfulness. Findings indicated that approximately 48% of the participants sampled had engaged in meditation during the past 6 months and that, holding mindfulness and perfectionist traits constant, participants who meditated at least weekly tended to report less MPA. Additionally, higher trait mindfulness predicted lower performance anxiety, whereas higher self-oriented as well as socially prescribed perfectionism predicted higher MPA scores. The type of meditation participants engaged in did not seem to significantly affect performance anxiety.

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