Association Between NELP Scale and Music Preference Among Young Adults

Music has excited in one form or the other since the beginning of human civilization and is evident in nearly all cultures across world (Mathews, 2010). Music – music is a very unique phenomenon. Music is everywhere. Music is in air. Music is in water. Music gives us feeling of calm, peace, it also uplifts the soul. Music helps us to express our feelings, our emotions. Music defines who we are. Music has been used in field of psychology and personality (Dollinger, 1993). It was found that by using music as a tool, we can understand the personality. Research have shown that how music genre or music which an individual prefers are associated with personality traits. For example, people who prefers opera- they are found creative, gentle and have high self- esteem. Music preference vary from person to person. 100 participants were part of this study belonging to age group of 18-25 years, of which 50 were female and 50 were male. Survey was conducted through Google form. To assess the personality and music preference- short EPQ- R and STOMP-R were used respectively. STOMP- R has major five dimensions, namely- Mellow, Unpretentious, Sophisticated, Intense and Contemporary underlying 23 music genre. Whereas Short EPQ- R has four scale, namely- Neuroticism, Extraversion, Psychoticism and Lie scale. In order to achieve objective of the study, Pearson moment correlation was calculated. Results shows that mellow dimension is positively related to all personality scales except psychoticism. Unpretentious and intense dimensions are positively related to extraversion and lie but negatively related to neuroticism and psychoticism. The sophisticated dimension is positively associated to all personality scales except psychoticism. Contemporary dimension has negative correlation with all personality scales except extraversion.