Music and physical activity in psychological well-being

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Percept Mot Skills. 2006 Aug;103(1):285-95.

Music and physical activity in psychological well-being.

Macone D, Baldari C, Zelli A, Guidetti L.

University Institute of Movement Sciences, Rome.

The present study was designed to examine the effects of listening

to music during exercise of moderate intensity on mood, state

anxiety, and time to exhaustion as well as to evaluate sex

differences in 27 physically active (14 men, 13 women) subjects

between the ages of 20 and 30 years. Participants completed the

Profile of Mood States and the State Anxiety Inventory before and

after treadmill running in Music and No music conditions. Music and

No Music conditions were randomly assigned, and participants

exercised at 75% of their Heart Rate Reserve until voluntary

exhaustion.

Analysis indicated participants reported statistically significant

mean changes on Tension, Depression, Fatigue, Confusion, and State

Anxiety. However, the findings for emotions yielded no significant

effect of music, except findings suggested that women, but not men,

reported greater mean Fatigue after exercising in the presence of

music than in its absence.

Also, there was a statistically significant finding suggesting that

women exercised longer with music than without.