Comparison of Music Preference on Personality and Stress Among College Students

To the respected persons and institution, hereby I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude. I express my sincere thanks to Dr. Amruta Oke Vice Principal Head of Department of Psychology, Modern College Pune, 411005.Foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor Prof. Dr. Shradha Sakatkar Ma’am for the continuous support of my study and research, for her patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. Her guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. I could not have imagined having a better advisor and mentor for my study. Besides my guide, I would like to thank the rest of my thesis committee, Prof. Smita Vaidya Mam and Prof. Shubham Sherekar Sir for their encouragement, insightful comments and hard questions. I am very much grateful to all the college principles, heads of departments and respected committee members as well as teachers for their permission for my research data collection and much needed help. Colleges in Pune include P.E.S. Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Babasaheb Barware College of Arts and Science, Garware College of Commerce, Marathwada Mitramandal College of Commerce and Brihan Maharashra College of Commerce, Furguesson College Pune. I am immensely obliged to my friends for their elevating inspiration, encouraging guidance and kind supervision in the completion of my project. Last, but not the least, my parents and relatives are also an important inspiration for me So with due regards, I express my gratitude to them.

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