Let the Music Play: Live Music Fosters Collective Effervescence and Leads to Lasting Positive Outcomes.
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2024-10
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This work examined the power of live music events to enhance wellbeing through collective effervescence (CE)-the sense of sacredness and connection felt when in large groups. Four studies (N = 789) using both university and community samples examined the relationship between live music events and CE and how this relationship contributes to positive, lasting outcomes. Results suggest that CE is highly related to positive outcomes associated with attending live music events. CE uniquely predicted meaning in life and enjoyment during the event above and beyond related constructs. Feeling CE was also related to greater meaning in life during the event and continued happiness a week after live music events. Further, CE mediated effects between various elements of live music events (e.g., parasocial bonds with the artist) and positive lasting outcomes. In summary, CE plays a key role in the lasting wellbeing that follows live music events.
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Koefler, Nicole, Esha Naidu, Shira Gabriel, Veronica Schneider, Gabriela S Pascuzzi and Elaine Paravati (2024). Let the Music Play: Live Music Fosters Collective Effervescence and Leads to Lasting Positive Outcomes. Personality & social psychology bulletin. p. 1461672241288027. 10.1177/01461672241288027 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/31611.
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Esha Naidu
Esha is a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University. She received her BA in Psychology from Arizona State University in 2017, her MA in Social-Personality Psychology from the University at Buffalo in 2021, and her PhD from the University at Buffalo in 2023. Esha’s research interests broadly concern 1) how features of social contexts and individual differences (e.g. culture, physical space, religious beliefs, and personality) influence feelings of belongingness and 2) how different kinds of pathways to a fulfilled sense of belongingness (e.g. technologically mediated relationships, symbolic social relationships, group memberships and close relationships) importantly differ. In her free time, Esha likes trying out new recipes, working out while complaining about working out, and desperately trying to keep her house plants alive.
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