The Effect of Pre-task Stimulative Music on Physical Performance and the Influence of Personality

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Music has many functions and one of it is enhancing physical performance. In addition, listening to stimulative music prior to physical activity has shown an ergogenic effect. However, it is unclear how different personality types may react differently to the effect of music. This research examines the research question: Does personality moderates the relationship between stimulative music and physical performance? Personality traits were operationalized in terms of the Big Five Inventory. Moreover, stimulative music was defined in terms of 3 non-released unfamiliar songs with a fast tempo. Physical performance was measured by using hand grip strength and a wall sit. One hundred participants from Maastricht University were recruited for this study. Stimulative music added statistically significantly to the prediction of grip strength, b = .99, p < .001. However, personality traits of the Big Five Inventory (extraversion, agreeableness, consciousness, neuroticism and opened to experience) did not influence this relation. Therefore, it was concluded that personality has no influence on music-performance relation.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/D4FCRX
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/D4FCRX
Provenance
Creator Dobrovicsova, Brenda; ten Hoor, Gill ORCID logo; Roozen, Sylvia ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor ten Hoor, Gill; faculty data manager FPN
Publication Year 2020
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
OpenAccess false
Contact ten Hoor, Gill (Maastricht University); faculty data manager FPN (Maastricht University)
Representation
Resource Type Experimental data; Dataset
Format application/x-spss-sav
Size 9899
Version 1.0
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Fine Arts, Music, Theatre and Media Studies; Humanities; Life Sciences; Music; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences