Motives for listening music and psychosocial wellbeing in teenagers
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2016
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UMT Lahore
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The current study investigated the relationship between motives for listening to music and psychosocial wellbeing in teenagers. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be a relationship between music listening motives (enhancement motives, coping motives, social motives and conformity motives) and psychosocial wellbeing (emotional wellbeing, social wellbeing and psychological wellbeing). Music listening motives will predict wellbeing. It was a correlational (cross-sectional) research. A non-probability convenient sample of 269 high school students including boys = 134 and girls = 135 with the age range from 14 to 19 (M = 16.01, SD = 1.39) was collected from different private and public schools and colleges of Lahore. Measurements included translated version of Motives for Listening to Music Questionnaire (MMLQ) (Kuntsche, Le Mevel, & Berson, 2016) and Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF) (Keyes et al., 2008). The results of Pearson product moment correlation showed that enhancement motives were positively and significantly correlated with emotional and social wellbeing, while coping motives were positively and significantly correlated with emotional and psychological wellbeing, and social motives were positively and significantly correlated with emotional wellbeing. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that enhancement and social motives were significant positive predictors of emotional wellbeing, whereas enhancement motive was a significant positive predictor of social wellbeing. The study helps us understand the importance of music in teenagers and contributes to the endeavor of music psychology.