scholarly journals Prolonged performance-related neuroendocrine activation and perseverative cognition in low- and high-anxious university music students

2018 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 18-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Gomez ◽  
Carole Nielsen ◽  
Regina K. Studer ◽  
Horst Hildebrandt ◽  
Petra L. Klumb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Music Students ◽  
Perseverative Cognition ◽  
High Anxious ◽  
Neuroendocrine Activation

scholarly journals Respiratory Variability, Sighing, Anxiety, and Breathing Symptoms in Low- and High-Anxious Music Students Before and After Performing

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amélie J. A. A. Guyon ◽  
Rosamaria Cannavò ◽  
Regina K. Studer ◽  
Horst Hildebrandt ◽  
Brigitta Danuser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Music Students ◽  
High Anxious ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Respiratory Variability

scholarly journals The mediating role of mood in the relationship between perseverative cognition, sleep and subjective health complaints in music students

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 754-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina K. Studer ◽  
Carole Nielsen ◽  
Petra L. Klumb ◽  
Horst Hildebrandt ◽  
Urs M. Nater ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Health ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Health Complaints ◽  
Subjective Health Complaints ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Perseverative Cognition ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The relationship between music performance anxiety, subjective performance quality and post-event rumination among music students

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Nielsen ◽  
Regina K. Studer ◽  
Horst Hildebrandt ◽  
Urs M. Nater ◽  
Pascal Wild ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety ◽  
Performance Quality ◽  
Social Events ◽  
High Anxious ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

According to cognitive models, the negative perception of one’s performance and the post-event rumination (PER) occurring after stressful social events maintain social anxiety. These aspects have hardly been studied in music performance anxiety (MPA), a specific form of social anxiety. The first aim of this study was to analyze the development of negative and positive PER over two days following a soloist concert, depending on the usual MPA level. The second aim was to investigate if subjective performance quality serves as mediator between MPA and PER. Negative and positive PER were assessed 10 minutes, one day and two days after a concert in 72 music students with different levels of usual MPA. Subjective performance quality was measured 10 minutes after the study concert. An increasing usual MPA level was associated with more negative and less positive PER. Both decreased over time. Negative PER decreased less rapidly in high-anxious than in low-anxious musicians and positive PER decreased more rapidly in low-anxious than in high-anxious musicians. Subjective performance quality mediated the relationship between MPA and PER. These findings extend previous knowledge in social anxiety to the field of MPA and have implications for interventions aiming at reducing MPA.

Effects of an Anxiety-Specific Psychometric Factor on Fear Conditioning and Fear Generalization

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Baumann ◽  
Miriam A. Schiele ◽  
Martin J. Herrmann ◽  
Tina B. Lonsdorf ◽  
Peter Zwanzger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Fear Conditioning ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Specific Factor ◽  
High Anxious ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Fear Generalization

Abstract. Conditioning and generalization of fear are assumed to play central roles in the pathogenesis of anxiety disorders. Here we investigate the influence of a psychometric anxiety-specific factor on these two processes, thus try to identify a potential risk factor for the development of anxiety disorders. To this end, 126 healthy participants were examined with questionnaires assessing symptoms of anxiety and depression and with a fear conditioning and generalization paradigm. A principal component analysis of the questionnaire data identified two factors representing the constructs anxiety and depression. Variations in fear conditioning and fear generalization were solely associated with the anxiety factor characterized by anxiety sensitivity and agoraphobic cognitions; high-anxious individuals exhibited stronger fear responses (arousal) during conditioning and stronger generalization effects for valence and UCS-expectancy ratings. Thus, the revealed psychometric factor “anxiety” was associated with enhanced fear generalization, an assumed risk factor for anxiety disorders. These results ask for replication with a longitudinal design allowing to examine their predictive validity.

Absolute Pitch and Its Frequency Range

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Rakowski ◽  
Piotr Rogowski
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Random Order ◽  
Absolute Pitch ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Musical Scale ◽  
Loudness Level ◽  
Pure Tones ◽  
Upper Boundary

AbstractThis paper has two distinct parts. Section 1 includes general discussion of the phenomenon of "absolute pitch" (AP), and presentation of various concepts concerning definitions of "full", "partial" and "pseudo" AP. Sections 2-4 include presentation of the experiment concerning frequency range in which absolute pitch appears, and discussion of the experimental results. The experiment was performed with participation of 9 AP experts selected from the population of 250 music students as best scoring in the pitch-naming piano-tone screening tests. Each subject had to recognize chromas of 108 pure tones representing the chromatic musical scale of nine octaves from E0 to D#9. The series of 108 tones was presented to each subject 60 times in random order, diotically, with loudness level about 65 phon. Percentage of correct recognitions (PC) for each tone was computed. The frequency range for the existence of absolute pitch in pure tones, perceived by sensitive AP possessors stretches usually over 5 octaves from about 130.6 Hz (C3) to about 3.951 Hz (B7). However, it was noted that in a single case, the upper boundary of AP was 9.397 Hz (D9). The split-halves method was applied to estimate the reliability of the obtained results.

scholarly journals Cognitive, behavioral, and autonomic correlates of mind wandering and perseverative cognition in major depression

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Ottaviani ◽  
Leila Shahabi ◽  
Mika Tarvainen ◽  
Ian Cook ◽  
Michelle Abrams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depression ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Perseverative Cognition

scholarly journals Perseverative Cognition and Snack Choice: An Online Pilot Investigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Eschle ◽  
Dane McCarrick
Keyword(s):  
Food Choice ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Risk Behaviours ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Perseverative Cognition ◽  
Pilot Investigation ◽  
Perseverative Thinking ◽  
Snack Consumption ◽  
Unhealthy Snacks

Perseverative cognition (PC), consisting of worry and rumination, has been consistently linked to a variety of poorer health outcomes, namely via the worsening of stress-induced health risk behaviours. However, research into PC and unhealthy food choice, a key health behaviour, still remains relatively unexplored. In the current pilot investigation, 284 participants were recruited to take part in an online food choice paradigm before completing the Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire (PTQ) and the Brief State Rumination Inventory (BSRI). As a reduced availability of unhealthy snacks has been shown to improve snack choice, participants were randomly allocated to either an even condition (a 3:3 ratio of ≤99 kcal and ≥199 kcal snacks) or an uneven condition (a 4:2 ratio in favour of ≤99 kcal snacks). It was hypothesized that higher levels of PC may predict greater instances of poorer snack choices across, or even within, this paradigm. Despite an increase availability of lower calorie snacks leading to a healthier snack choice, both state and trait PC measures did not significantly influence snack choice irrespective of this varying availability. Although, marginal trends were found for higher state PC and higher calorie crisp selections. The current pilot therefore adds to the growing literature advocating for the use of behavioural economic tactics to engender healthier food choices, yet further work is needed to unpick the mediating role of PC (and its components) in snack consumption paradigms.

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