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Objective To investigate the relationship between medical college students' music preference 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.
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Objective To explore the relationship between music preferences and mental health in medical students and to propose countermeasures.Methods Music Preferences Questionnaire and Chinese college students mental health scale(CCSMHS) were used to test 538 randomly selected medical students and the data was analyzed by descriptive statistics,T test and variance analysis with SPSS 20.0 and the inspection level was α=0.05.Results ①Statistically significant (P＜0.05) differences were found on somatization,anxiety,depression,inferiority,paranoid,force,social withdrawal,reliance,impulse and psychotic tendencies in medical students with different preference of music style; ②Statistically significant (P＜0.05) differences were found on anxiety and inferiority in medical students with different preference of music type; ③Statistically significant (P＜0.05) differences were found on anxiety,depression,paranoid,force,social withdrawal and reliance in medical students with different participating ways of music; ④Statistically significant (P＜0.05) differences were found on somatization,anxiety,inferiority and paranoid in medical students with different attitude about participating music activities; ⑤Medical students with different preferences of music activities preferences did not have significant difference on factor of mental health(P＞0.05).Conclusion The relationship between medical students' mental health and music preferences is very close.By training and guiding music preferences of medical students in mental health education,we can improve their mental health effectively.