The relationship between music preferences and positive emotion, subjective well-being and life sat-isfaction in medical college students

Objective To investigate the relationship between medical college students' music pref-erence and positive emotion, subjective well-being as well as life satisfaction. Methods A self-designed music preference questionnaire, the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS), Index of Well-being (IWB) and Life Satisfaction Scales Applicable to College Students (CSLSS) were used to test 571 college students and SPSS 20.0 was adopted to establish the database of all the data for statistical description, t test and Analysis of Variance. Results ① the positive emotion scores of medical college students who are fond of lively music and calm music (average scores are 29.91 and 29.14 respectively) are significantly higher than those of students who like sorrow music (average score is 27.31); the positive emotion score for the students who are active in music activities is obviously higher than that of the students who are passive to accept music. ② the index of subject well-being for medical college students who are fond of lively music and calm music (average scores are 10.46 and 10.40 respectively) is significantly higher than that for the students who like sorrow music (average score is 9.60). ③ in terms of the attitude towards the music participation, the scores in objective life satisfaction (P<0.05), subjective life satisfaction (P<0.01) and general life satisfaction(P<0.01) for medical college students who participate in music activity with others are significantly higher than those for students involved in music activity alone. Conclusion Medical college students' positive emotions, subjective well-being as well as life satisfaction and music preferences are closely related. In the process of psychological health education, attaching great importance to the cultivation and guidance of medical students music preferences will play a positive role in the psychological health for medical college students. Key words: College students; Music preferences; Positive emotion; Relationship