2011/01/14 by Antonis Gardikiotis, Alexandros Baltzis · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Diverse Music Education Insights #Neuroscience and Music Perception #Social and Cultural Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1177/0305735610386836
openalex publication_date 2011/01/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The present study examined the relationship between music preferences, values, and musical identities in a sample of 606 Greek college students. Students indicated the importance of music in defining and evaluating themselves and their values on an abbreviated version of the Schwartz Value Survey ( Schwartz, 1992 ). A typology of music preferences was revealed, with five factors: sophisticated and complex (e.g., jazz); native-Greek traditional (e.g., ‘rebetika’); sentimental and sensational (e.g., pop); established rebellious (e.g., rock); and non-mainstream dissonant (e.g., punk). Hierarchical regression analyses showed that values and perceived importance of music to self-definition (i.e., musical identities) contribute differentially in predicting the music preference structures, for example self-transcendence predicted established rebellious and conservation predicted sentimental and sensational; also musical identity was positively related to established rebellious and negatively to sentimental and sensational. These findings are discussed and interpreted within a psychological, as well as an interdisciplinary, theoretical framework.