The effect of various music genres on the adolescents’ emotional state

Abstract

The relationship between adolescents' emotional states and the kind of music listened to under the supervision of the teacher allowed us to understand the effectiveness of the listening activities conducted under experimental conditions. In school, when listening to a piece of music, students should be taught by music teachers to discover how feelings and emotions are expressed through that music. This paper aims at investigating how, by listening to various music genres (pop, rock, classical, jazz) adolescents' emotional states are influenced. The results confirmed the hypothesis formulated. Young people’s preference for rock and pop was ascertained. The fact that listening to the suggested 4 types of music lowers the affective emotional states can be explained by the fact that listening to music is adolescents’ way of relaxing.