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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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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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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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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Classifying Different Types of Music Performance Anxiety [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a commonly present topic among musicians. Most studies on MPA investigated effects of a more general occurrence of MPA on performances.
Claudia Spahn +2 more
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Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory: Contribution for the Portuguese Validation [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2022 (1) Background: The aim of the present study was to contribute to the validation of the Portuguese version of the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory (K-MPAI) and to study its psychometric properties.
Pedro Dias +5 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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Psychological capital and music performance anxiety: the mediating role of self-esteem and flow experience [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBackgroundThis study aimed to explore the correlation between psychological capital and music performance anxiety among Chinese college students majoring in music.
Xin Jiang, Yanli Tong
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