The material presented in this article is based on a qualitative interview study focused on MP 3 player use as a medium for musical self-care.
The ability to understand and regulate affects has significant health implications, and among the tactics relevant to such regulation, engagement with music has proven to be particularly successful. This article explores MP 3 player use as an everyday tactic for affect regulation, here understood as an individual's efforts to maintain or change the intensity or duration of a given affect. The use of digital portable music devices such as MP 3 players has rapidly increased during the last decade, and the sheer availability of music offered by such players raises questions about their impact on listeners' mental and physical health and well-being.
Because MP 3 users can listen to whatever they want, whenever they want, and target their music in the interests of managing and regulating moods and emotions, the MP 3 player represents a valuable and convenient technology of affect regulation.Įveryday music listening and affect regulation: the role of MP 3 players.
Everyday music listening and affect regulation: The role of MP 3 playersĭirectory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)įull Text Available The use of digital portable music devices such as MP 3 players has rapidly increased during the last decade, and the sheer availability of music offered by such players raises questions about their impact on listeners’ mental and physical health and well-being.
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