Music has been regarded as an effective tool to alleviate emotions, but there are different variables in music with distinct styles and characteristics, which can bring people a variety of feelings, and the effect of relieving feelings is also different. This study selects one of the variables to explore the impact of music speed on alleviating people's negative feelings. In the study, the main method of the research is an experiment, which is conducted by an experimenter and a participant in a relatively quiet place offline. There were a total of 50 participants in this experiment, of which 25 listened to the low-speed music and 25 listened to the high-speed music. The participants filled out a questionnaire containing demographic information and their feelings about four different emotions before and after listening to music. After analyzing the two quantitative methods of T-Test and ANOVA, the conclusions are that music can effectively improve peoples three negative feelings of relaxation, irritation, and uneasiness, and the low-speed music is more relaxing than the high-speed music. In addition, age is not closely related to the degree of stress relief.
Li et al. (Thu,) studied this question.