this is indeed a very critical point, thank you for bringing this up! wouldn’t it be great if a task force could get formed to develop a scale that covers the experience of absorption as ranging from negative to neutral (say, when doing a fine motor coordination task; calling this simply “concentration”, for instance, would not cover this additional flow-type experience one has in absorption, I believe?) to positive… best, esra Esra Mungan, PhD Assoc. Prof. Psychological Science MA Program Advisor Departmental Exchange Program Coordinator Psychology Dept. Bogazici University Istanbul - Turkey https://psychology.bogazici.edu.tr/content/esra-mungan https://universitybogazici.wordpress.com/ https://www.direnenakademi.wordpress.com/ From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Huron, David Regarding absorption measures, I'd like to offer a word of caution about the connection with music enjoyment. Of the many traits that have been examined, absorption shows the highest correlation with liking of sad-music. However, an examination of the specific survey items used in these measures raises concerns. For example, the absorption scale in the Glisky and Kihlstrom (1993) AILQ survey probe a respondent’s level of interest, such as an interest in art, science, or in how things work. One-third of the survey items are explicitly phrased in terms of enjoyment, including the enjoyment of poetry, art, and music. Moreover, there are no survey items probing whether a person can be absorbed in things that are not necessarily enjoyable. For example, there are no items of the form: “I find news reports of natural disasters compelling.” “I am both disgusted and fascinated by animal dissections.” “I listen carefully to people whose views I disagree with.” In other words, the Glisky and Kihlstrom absorption scale fails to isolate “absorption” as a form of interest, attentiveness or immersion, independent of enjoyment. I can't speak to all of the absorption instruments out there, but it seems that the instruments themselves tend to presume that absorption is enjoyable. That's not an unreasonable idea, but when that assumption is built-in to the survey items it makes it impossible to interpret any positive correlation with some other measure of enjoyment/preference. Depending on your research aim, I'd recommend looking carefully at the specific survey items. -David Huron From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Esra Mungan <esra.mungan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dear list, many thanks for all the recommendations! best, esra · work by Thijs Vroegh https: //psycnet. apa. org/fulltext/2019-58627-009. html or https: //www. sciencedirect. com/science/article/pii/S1053810021000143#t0010· overview dear list, many thanks for all the recommendations! best, esra work by Thijs Vroegh https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2019-58627-009.html or https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810021000143#t0010 overview by Kuijpers and colleagues on narrative absorption - https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110645958/html (section IV) AIMS à Sandstrom G. M., Russo F. A. (2013). Absorption in music: Development of a scale to identify individuals with strong emotional responses to music. Psychology of Music, 41(2), 216–228. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735611422508; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0305735611422508 /; the AIMS scale as well as documentation on administration and norms here: https://psychlabs.torontomu.ca/smartlab/resources/aims-scale/#:~:text=The%20Absorption%20in%20music%20(AIMS,and%20shows%20reliability%20over%20time. __ Esra Mungan, PhD Associate Professor Psychological Sciences MA Program Advisor Erasmus & Exchange Dept’l Coordinator Bogazici University Psychology Dept. Istanbul-TURKEY From: Dana Swarbrick [mailto:dana.swarbrick@xxxxxxxxxx] Hello Esra, I would recommend checking out work by Thijs Vroegh, for example, https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2019-58627-009.html or https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810021000143#t0010 Department of Musicology, University of Oslo From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of esra mungan <esra.mungan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dear list, this is a question to those of you who do research on music and emotion. I have noticed that there are a couple of scales that look into “absorption”, say when listening to music or poetry or when engaging with nature etc. are there any of those scales or subscales you would particularly recommend? the tellegen & atkinson (1974) scale seems to be a widely used one. but there are other ones, too (e.g., glisky et al., 1991). in order to use them we would also need their scoring schemes. any help will be highly appreciated. best, esra Esra Mungan, PhD Associate Professor Psychological Science MA Advisor Departmental Exchange Program Coordinator Psychology Dept. Bogazici University Istanbul - Turkey https://psychology.bogazici.edu.tr/content/esra-mungan https://universitybogazici.wordpress.com/ |