Music performance anxiety: development and validation of the Portuguese music performance anxiety scale [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologySeveral studies have developed and validated specific scales to understand, identify and confirm research hypotheses associated with music performance anxiety (MPA). These scales mostly assess behavioral, cognitive, and physiological factors.
Samuel Barros +3 more
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Current Trends in Music Performance Anxiety Intervention [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a natural, emotional, and physiological response to the stress of public performance. Debilitating forms of MPA are severe and persistent reactions that go beyond the normal adaptive response to music evaluation ...
Belén Gómez-López +1 more
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Editorial: Highlights in performance science: music performance anxiety [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Musical performance activities are the culmination of arduous work and dedication. Musical interpretation is, at its core, an act of openness and vulnerability, which makes stage anxiety a relevant issue in the musical community. Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, manifesting in different ways and affecting ...
Patrick Gomez +3 more
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Repeated stage exposure reduces music performance anxiety [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 BackgroundHigh heart rate (HR) and restlessness are two important features of music performance anxiety (MPA). In a case report of a cellist suffering from this condition, we showed that HR and restlessness decreased after repeated live performances of ...
Victor Candia +4 more
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Exploring the relationships among music performance anxiety, teaching anxiety, and self-efficacy of Chinese preservice music teachers [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis quantitative study aimed to explore the relationships among music performance anxiety (MPA), teacher anxiety (TA), and self-efficacy (SE) through a survey study of Chinese preservice music teachers (N = 237).
Cancan Cui, Xin Xie, Yue Yin
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Problematic overstudying, Big Five personality, and music performance anxiety: associations with well-being and GPA [PDF]
Health Psychology ReportBackground Problematic overstudying is a compulsive and pathological overinvolvement in studying leading to harm and considerable functional impairments. It is conceptualized as “study addiction,” a precursor to work addiction.
Piotr M. Luszuk +4 more
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Live Music Performance: The Relationship Between Flow and Music Performance Anxiety [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Most studies exploring the relation between flow and Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) have focused on the disposition of generally experiencing flow and the occurrence of MPA.
Claudia Spahn +2 more
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Emotion Goals in Music Performance Anxiety [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Performance anxiety can be debilitating, and so researchers and laypeople alike tend to assume that it is desirable to downregulate this emotion. Yet emerging perspectives in the emotion literature suggest that people sometimes aim to upregulate anxiety ...
Margaret S. Osborne +3 more
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Parameters for screening music performance anxiety [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014 Objective: To assess the discriminative capacity of the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory (K-MPAI), in its version adapted for Brazil, in a sample of 230 Brazilian adult musicians.
Ana E. Barbar +2 more
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Music-related background and experience as correlates of music performance anxiety among Japanese musicians [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyPrior music performance anxiety (MPA) studies have predominantly sampled university music students. Although MPA is recognized as a global concern, evidence from Asia remains limited.
Sakie Takagi +6 more
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