Abstract: Music preferences are associated with personality traits, like the Big Five traits. We tested the idea that, above and beyond personality traits, personal values explain music preferences. Evidence from an undergraduate convenience sample in the southern US (valid n = 389) provided some evidence in favor of this prediction for some genres. For example, the Unpretentious dimension of the MUSIC model, which encompasses country music, was particularly reflected in personal values (e.g., traditional values), with personal values more than doubling the predictive capacity of the traits-only model. This study extends work showing that human values may find expression in music preferences, above and beyond the association between personality traits and music preferences.
Morgan et al. (Thu,) studied this question.