%0 Journal Article
%T Strategies and mechanisms in musical affect self
%A Margarida Baltazar
%A Suvi Saarikallio
%J Musicae Scientiae
%@ 2045-4147
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1029864917715061
%X This study aimed at investigating the associations between regulation strategies and musical mechanisms involved in musical affect self-regulation. A sample of 571 participants was collected and the data regarding the reported strategies and mechanisms were analysed using correspondence analysis (CA). Three bipolar dimensions ¨C cognition, feelings, and body ¨C were retained for interpretation, thus revealing six contrasting strategic uses of music: cognitive work, entertainment, affective work, distraction, revival, and focus on situation. Clear associations between strategies and mechanisms emerged from the CA, connecting cognitive, feelings-focused, and situational processing with individual-dependent mechanisms and repairing, pleasure, and body-focused strategies with feature-dependent mechanisms. The novel observations about these associations renew the conceptual understanding of musical affect self-regulation and lay foundations for a new model that integrates regulatory strategies and mechanisms as intrinsic and interrelated components of this behaviour
%K affect regulation
%K correspondence analysis
%K emotion regulation
%K mechanisms
%K mood regulation
%K music
%K self-regulation
%K strategies
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1029864917715061