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Music Experience Scale Questionnaire

This document describes a study that examined how young people across six cultures experience music on personal, social, and cultural levels. Participants rated the degree to which 33 statements about the functions of music applied to their experiences, covering emotional, social, family, stress relief, background, dancing, focus, values development, political, identity, memory, and spiritual engagement functions of music. The study found that music served important roles across these domains and that experiences varied somewhat based on gender and culture.

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Music Experience Scale Questionnaire

This document describes a study that examined how young people across six cultures experience music on personal, social, and cultural levels. Participants rated the degree to which 33 statements about the functions of music applied to their experiences, covering emotional, social, family, stress relief, background, dancing, focus, values development, political, identity, memory, and spiritual engagement functions of music. The study found that music served important roles across these domains and that experiences varied somewhat based on gender and culture.

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RESPECT- Music Scale in English

Source: Boer, D., Fischer, R., Tekman, H. G., Abubakar, A. A., Njenga, J., & Zenger, M. (2012). Young
people’s topography of musical functions: Personal, social and cultural experiences with music across
genders and six cultures. International Journal of Psychology, 47, 355-369.
DOI:10.1080/00207594.2012.656128

Translation: Original (Boer, 2010)

Instruction and response scale: Please indicate the degree to which each of the following statements
applies to your experience with music from “1 – not at all” to “7 – to a great extent”

Variable Items
RM_emo1 Feelings conveyed in a song can make my heart melt.
RM_emo2 Some songs pluck my heartstrings.
RM_emo3 Some songs are so powerful that they are able to bring tears into my eyes.
RM_emo4 It's important to me that music transports feelings.
RM_emo5 Music is emotion flowing in sound.
RM_sb1 I meet with friends and listen to good music.
Through music my friends and I can commemorate happy past moments
RM_sb2 together.
Listening to music with friends is a way of sharing good old memories of our
RM_sb3 lives.
Going to concerts and listening to records is a way for me and my friends to get
RM_sb4 together and relate to each other.
We live these moments of true connection when I listen to music or go to
RM_sb5 concerts with my friends.
RM_fa1 Music allows me to have a common interest with my family.
RM_fa2 Our shared music taste is something that brings my family together.
RM_fa3 I like talking to my family about music.
RM_fa4 I enjoy listening to music with my family/relatives.
RM_ven1 Music is what alleviates my frustration.
RM_ven2 Music is a means of venting my frustration.
RM_ven3 Through listening to music I can let off steam.
RM_ven4 Music seems to reduce stress.
RM_ba1 I need music in the background while doing something else.
RM_ba2 In many situations I need music in the background.
RM_ba3 Whatever I do, I listen to music in the background.
RM_da1 I like dancing to certain music.
RM_da2 Some music makes me want to dance.
RM_da3 I like to go dancing, and the type of music is essential for this.
RM_fo1 I can keep my focus on a task while listening to the right music.
RM_fo2 Music helps me to focus.
RM_fo3 Listening to music allows me to concentrate.
RM_val1 Music is very important in the process of developing my values.
RM_val2 Somehow music steers my approach to life and my values.
RM_val3 My personal development was positively influenced by music.
RM_pol1 My favourite music is often political.
RM_pol2 I usually listen to music that goes somewhat with my political beliefs.
RM_pol3 Music plays an important role in my life as a means of political engagement.
RM_pol4 I like political content in songs.
The music of my country represents an image of my country to the outside
RM_id1 world.
RM_id2 The music in my country is part of building our identity.
RM_id3 Music is a reflection of a country's culture and history.
RM_me1 Music gives my friends and me lots of memories.
RM_me2 Memories are connected to songs I used to listen to.
RM_me3 My friends and I think of our memories, when we hang out listening to music.
RM_me4 Certain tracks evoke memories of particular situations in my life.
RM_spir1 My favourite music is often spiritual.
RM_spir2 I usually listen to music that goes somewhat with my spiritual beliefs.
RM_spir3 Music plays an important role in my life as a means of spiritual engagement.
RM_spir4 I like spiritual content in songs.

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