Psychology of Music in Positive Psychology

The current research will investigate how praise and worship impact individual's well-being. Quasi-experimental will be used to enhance the research method where experiments will be conducted on the music listeners. The results will be significant in helping individuals understand the importance of praise and worship for positive psychology. Introduction Positive psychology deals with things that enhance an individual's general psychological well-being. Previous studies have indicated that there is a positive correlation between music and positive psychology. The social and ethnic meaning by individuals reverses these sounds into music (Frith, 1996). The world is full of challenges and the researchers persistently work towards providing the most effective solutions to the problems facing the society. As such, the study by Kurian (2016) indicates that the principal reason for founding praise and worship songs involved enhancing the connection between the believers and God.

Praise and worship songs have special aspects in that they affect and provoke a person’s emotions. Since its inception, many diversified religions have adopted praise and worship songs in performing various religious ceremonies. According to Hunter, Schellenberg, and Schimmack (2010), music is the purest form of art that helps people in many ways. It helps people with memory lapse to remember and those with language defects to learn how to speak again. In modern days, the music industry has become a significant thing to many people globally thus making them dedicate their careers and lives in the music sector (Hunter, Schellenberg & Schimmack, 2010). Moreover, it has many genres gospel music being one of them. People best recognize praise and worship for evoking the gods and gaining spiritual understanding.

In short, I will determine how praise and worship songs affect the emotions of diverse individuals. In this research, music is an independent variable since it evokes different kinds of emotions in an individual. On the other hand, emotion is the dependent variable since it depends on the type of music played. According to Schäfer et al. , (2013), music is an independent variable that plays essential roles in determining how people express their emotions. There are situations to the heavenly alliance of music and treatment in customary ancient times and the healing purpose of much between nascent people (Schullian & Schoen, 1948). Current work on music has affirmed the efficiency of music too. This is of the concept that music can activate Endorphins in a being body that aid the brain in generating sound descriptions, letting people break loose into an unpainful world protected by their thoughts.

Research Purpose The purpose of the research involves determining the correlation between praise and worship songs and emotional well-being. In short, the researcher will find out how praise and worship songs affect a person's emotions. This is because engagement has a capability of measuring a person’s purpose and significance in life. Again, engagement predicts diverse physical and psychological health outcomes. According to Pascoe and colleagues (2005), it is possible to improve the psychological well-being of a person using different strategies listening whereby praise and worship songs was identified as one of the best strategies. Moreover, according to the study, music positively affects a person’s psychology as well as entire well-being. Music impact individual physical, social, emotional, and cognitive realms, and thus may bring pleasure to life.

Again, according to Narmour (1991), the top-down theory assumes that contentment has greater connection to overall behavior to assess and infer to circumstances in a positive direction. From this perspective, an individual brings propensities of advantageous for the circumstances that he runs into. Research Design Method Could praise and worship decrease a person's negative emotions, which in turn enhance a person's well-being? Past studies regarding this subject have shown that it is impossible to decrease the negative emotions to the negative, which are positive emotions (Fredrickson et al. Researchers perceive praise and worship as a way of enhancing people's capability of dealing with negative emotions (Ellison & Levin, 1998). In order to determine the response to this question, the researcher will utilize experimental methodology to assess how praise and worship songs affect individual's emotions.

It will require 3 days to distribute all the questionnaires. The researcher will require study participants to give relevant responses to all the questions in the questionnaires. Data Collection The researcher will collect data from the respondents by use of questionnaires. Each responded will be required to respond to all the research questions. The questionnaires will contain the research questions related to the study. How often do you engage in praise and worship activities? Equipment Required The researcher will utilize the following equipment for data collection and analysis: i. Stationery: The researcher will require stationary including books, pencils, and pen for filling in the questionnaires. ii. Questionnaire: The researcher will utilize questionnaires for collecting first-hand information and responses from the study participants.

iii. Data collected from the respondents will be merged together in an excel spreadsheet. Later, I will be transfer the data to the SPSS for the analysis purpose. The researcher will qualitatively and quantitatively analyze the data from the questionnaires. Results Presentation The researcher will present the results from the quantitative analysis in terms of charts and graphs. Moreover, I will present data from the qualitative analysis in form of a summary. Maintaining Validity and Reliability This research is prone to a number of validity and reliability issues including research bias, personal bias, variation in participant's responses, and several other issues. Firstly, the research bias might outcome from collecting wrong information from the respondents or collecting the data from a small sample.

The researcher will reduce this bias by using a large population sample and repeating the experiment twice. The results from the second experiment must be consistent with the results of the first experiment to ensure validity and reliability of the research. Secondly, participant's bias might outcome where participants fail to give credible information or the research ignores one type of gender. Conclusion This research is a miniature effort to investigate if music plays a role in increasing the levels of contentment in praise and worship or not. Its purpose was to experimentally examine if the music is sentimental or not. This research will investigate whether music is essential tool for raising positive emotions in individuals or not. An individual can live an engaged life, pleasant and meaningful life via the use of positive psychology.

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