While looking for articles in the library for my topic on music, I wasn’t able to find a lot. Their were articles of the history of music but nothing dealing with stress or coping with it. However, I found an article called Journal of sport and Exercise Psychology by Robert C. Eklund, and one of the journals discusses Pyschophysical and Ergogenic effects of synchronous music during treadmill walking by Costas Karageorghis, Denis Mouzourides, David-Lee Priest, Tariq Sasso, Daley Morrish, and Carolyn Walley. This article wanted to figure out what effects do motivational synchronous music and oudeterous synchronous music have on the body when on the treadmill. Even when people sit motionless with no music the body still tends to move, tap the feet, fingers moving etc. They broke down the method to different stages: stage 1 was the music selection, they took samples from 100 volunteers that gave consent. Stage 2 was the Experimental Investigation, members were to walk on a treadmill at a high rate while listening to music and were required to follow identical patterns of activity and diet. Were also not allowed to eat 2 hrs before the experiment. In one of the figures they had motivational, oudeterous, and no music while testing the endurance, and people who listen to motivational music tend to have more endurance on the treadmill. It seemed like the data they were using was acts, behaviors, or events because they were trying to see how much endurance  the particpants can go and they did this with a controlled study possibly using focus groups.

Eklund PhD, Robert C. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 1st ed., vol. 31, Human Kinetics., 2009.