Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Shruti P. Soudi ¹, Vijaylaxmi A. Aminabhavi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Karnataka University, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

The practice of music is expected to have a greater impact on the behavior of the practitioner. In the view of this, the present investigation is taken up to study whether the musicians are differing significantly from nonmusicians on their personality, coping with stress and spirituality. To achieve this objective Eysenk's personality inventory, brief cope by Carver and spirituality questionnaire by Jochen et al. were used for administration on 40 musicians residing in Hubli-Dharwad of Karnataka state. The age of both samples range from 21 to 73 years. The obtained results revealed that non-musicians have significantly very high neuroticism score than musicians (t=3.62; p<0.001) It means musicians have higher emotional balance than those non-musicians. Further musicians have shown significantly very higher active coping (t=5.49; p<0.001) and planning (t=4.27; p<0.001) than non-musicians. It is also observed that non-musicians have significantly higher coping with stress in terms of acceptance (t=7.08), humor (t=3.79), religion (t=2.83) and behavior disengagement (t=−8.21) and the results on of the spirituality questionnaire indicate that non-musicians have significantly very higher spirituality in terms of belief in God (t=−7.25), search for meaning (t=−7.37), mindfulness (t=−5.26), and feeling of security (t=−6.12).

Keywords

Musicians, Non-Musicians, Personality, Coping with Stress and Spirituality.

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Shruti P. Soudi ¹, Shanmukh V. Kamble ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of P.G Studies & Research in Psychology, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnatka, IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted to find out whether the factors such as Duration of crying episode, Intensity of crying, Time gap, People present during crying episode, significantly contribute to crying. 60 adults (male=30 and female=30) were taken as a sample for study. Adult Crying Inventory developed by Ad Vingerhoets (1995) was used for this study. Step wise multiple regression analysis was done to find out the results. For negative crying factors Crying Episode Lasted for 5-15 minutes and Intensity of Crying with Wet eyes sobbing and howling significantly contributed for negative crying. Factors such as Intensity of Crying With wet Eyes Sobbing Howling, Body movements and Vocalization Effect of Crying (Made My Peace with the Situation), Intensity of Crying With wet Eyes Sobbing and Howling were contributed on positive outcomes in positive events of adults. The study concludes that the crying in both positive and negative events have led to the mood change which is the positive outcome. Further discussion was made.

Keywords

Adult Crying, Positive Outcome, Negative Outcome.

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