The Effects of Music on Teenagers' Emotions
When teenagers listen to music, does it make them depressed? Does listening to music make them happy? Some people think it does affect them and others do not. Regardless if the person likes music or not it is involved some way in that person's life; whether it's by playing an instrument, listening to songs on the radio, studying music, or even by hearing a song being played in a store. When listening to music teenagers are effected by it, and music can help to change a teen's emotions, both positively and negatively. In the human brain there is a chemical called EEG when activated, changes a person's emotions. According to a recent study, "the positive affect is associated with greater relative left frontal EEG activation and negative affect is associated with greater relative right frontal EEG activation" (Field and others 109). In that study they took fourteen chronically depressed female adolescents and played rock music to them for twenty-one minute sessions. Then they took another fourteen chronically depressed female adolescents and had them sit and relax their minds and muscles for the same time period (Field and others 109). "EEG was recorded during baseline, music, and post-music for three minutes each, and s
In another study they investigated the relationship aliva samples were collected before and after the session to determine the effects of the music on stress hormone (cortisol) levels" (Field and others 109). The results were that cortisol levels decreased and the relative right frontal activation was significantly attenuated during and after the music procedure. Which proves that music did have an effect on the emotions of the female adolescents. Therapist, Michael Conn, says that when some of his patients are depressed or are feeling down, he sometimes plays soothing, up-beat, relaxing, positive music to help them feel better. He said that he uses the music particularly with teenagers, because he knows how much some teenagers like to listen to music. He even suggests to some of his patients to try and listen to music that has positive lyrics and a positive feeling to it. Conn thinks that music affects the listeners subconscious thoughts. So music can affect a person's thoughts without the person even realizing it. He also thinks that playing a musical instrument is good for teenagers. So Conn thinks that listening to music effects the emotions in adolescents. There are some studies that show listening to classical music increases a person's IQ level by eight or nine points. One such study performed by Frances Rauscher and Gordon Shaw in 1993 proved that listening to Mozart did raise people's IQ. Rauscher and Shaw took college students from the University of California, Irvine, and divided the students into three groups. " The first group sat in silence, while the second heard relaxation instructions and the third group listened to ten minutes of Mozart's Piano Sonata K448 (Mozart's Piano Sonata K448 is a song composed by Mozart),"(Scheel and Westefeld 243). Then all the students One of the reasons music has an impact on people is through the lyrics of
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