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Of the variety of psychological states that music can arouse, perhaps two of the most highly prized are absorption (a kind of “effortless involvement”) and dissociation or detachment. These...
Nov 11, 2011 · We created the Absorption in Music Scale (AIMS), a 34-item measure of individuals’ ability and willingness to allow music to draw them into an emotional experience. It was evaluated with a sample of 166 participants, and exhibits good psychometric properties.
- Gillian M. Sandstrom, Frank A. Russo
- 2013
Analysis of the interview data revealed the following themes: 1. how music therapy experiences facilitate absorption for clients, 2. how absorption influences music therapy clients, and 3. transitioning to new experiential states.
- Michael John Russo
- 2019
Published in 2011, Everyday Music Listening: Absorption, Dissociation and Trancing is one the first books to focus on the nature of music listening as a lived experience and it offers the first extensive ‘real-world’ study of absorbing and dissociative experiences of music.
Accounts of musical absorption in performing musicians have presented a recurrent paradox, which revolves around the description of absorption as a state characterized by both heightened and diminished bodily, reflective, and affective self-awareness (Høffding, 2018).
Nov 5, 2014 · Sandstrom and Russo (2013) created a 34-item instrument, the Absorption in Music Scale (AIMS), to measure a person’s ability and willingness to allow music to pull them into an emotional experience. Absorption may play a critical role in moderating the intensity of an emotional response to music.
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Feb 26, 2024 · Dictionaries define self-absorption unappealingly as “preoccupied with oneself or one’s own affairs,” frequently adding that it’s “to the exclusion of others or the outside world.” That...