Mental Health Archives

Music can be a COVID-19 coping strategy

09/08/2021

Music can be a COVID-19 coping strategy according to an international research project by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics who investigated whether musical engagement is an effective strategy for socio-emotional coping during lockdown. Beyond the immediate health risks of the Covid-19 pandemic, the containment measures it necessitates have brought with them a number of other stressors that can undermine individual and collective well-being. The MPI team collected demographically representative samples from six countries […]

Britons turn to albums to boost their mental well-being

12/10/2019

Britons turn to albums to boost their mental well-being according to a study commissioned by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) as part of National Album Day on 12th October 2019. The results, reported on the BPI website showed that ‘millions of stressed Britons are turning to their music collections to help them de-stress.’ The key results indicate a strong link between listening to albums and mental well-being with respondents overwhelmingly agreeing that album listening is […]