Lauren Gruber English 1102 17 February 2014 Annotated Bibliography Draft 1 The role of music in adolescents mood regulation

http://pom.sagepub.com.librarylink.uncc.edu/content/35/1/88.full.pdf+html This article was a study to see if music really affects the mood of those who play and/or listen to it. The study focused mainly on adolescents because of the common exposure to music, and because they are in a transitional part of life in which they experience challenges in controlling their mood and behavior. Eight participated, and they were split up into two groups two girls and two boys that were 14, and two girls and two boys that were 17. Both groups had a mixture of musicians and ones who simply listened to music. They were required to bring a record of their choice, and to write about how it made them feel and the importance behind it as well as music as a whole. The results supported the experimenters hypothesis music affected mood positively. Every participant described that music always makes him or her happier in the end. They showed how music could uplift them while in a bad mood, it could clear their thoughts, they could relate personally to lyrics and feel like they belong, and they could vent out their feelings through music. In the end, they all reported that their mood significantly changes in a positive way during and after they listen to music. Written from the field of Psychology of Music at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, this article was peer-reviewed and posted in an online academic database. It was recently written as well, so it is a credible source. As a musician and avid music listener myself, I completely agree with this article and I experience mood changes when I listen to music as well.

Effects of music therapy on depression compared with psychotherapy http://www.sciencedirect.com.librarylink.uncc.edu/science/article/pii/S0197455610000857 The purpose of this article was to explore whether or not music therapy was more effective than psychotherapy in treating patients with depression. In their experiment, there were 79 participants who all struggled with depression and were taken from a clinic hospital in Mexico. 41 of them were given music therapy, and the remaining 38 were given psychotherapy. The results were recorded after 8 sessions. The result proved music therapy to be more successful. While only 12 of the 38 patients during psychotherapy had seen improvements, 29 of the 41 patients who received music therapy had improved. That is over double the amount of participants who had improved. The researchers go on to explain how the Mozart Effect music activates signal pathways in the brain, enhancing capacity, which helps recover and diminish symptoms of depression. This is a peer-reviewed article, written by five experts in psychology. Their study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards for the Master's in Sciences Program of the School of Medicine and Surgery of the UABJO as well as the Ethics Committee of the corresponding health care institution, making this article a reliable source. Reading this article gave me a new perspective on how music can be not only recreational, but clinical as well. Relating to the article before this one, music affects mood and can be used in a hospital setting to treat serious mental illnesses. Music plays a bigger role than I thought.