As I keep reading over my research question “how does music genres affect percieved stress?” I feel like it may be to broad in a sense. However, most of the articles that i have found on my topic seem to be that music is a very theraputical stress reliever. For this article i looked up on google scholar how does music affect your mood and found an article called “memorable expeirences with sad music- reasons, reactions, and mechanisms of three types of experiences.” The article discusses how to clarify the relevant reasons, mechanisms, and emotions involved in musical experiences associated with sadness. They  wanted to focus on 4 specific questions: What are the characteristics of music-induced sadness in terms of the situations, changes in physical and mental states and physical reactions? What are the dominant psychological mechanisms and reasons behind the experiences involving sad music? what are the typical emotions associated with such experiences and the specific structure underlying these? And how prevalent are the different types of experiences previously identified in association with listening to sad music? The method they used to answer these questions was an online survey and was anonymous which was no consent from the particpants but the survey explained the volunatary use they will be using the survey for. The first section dealt with attitudes towards sad music, the second section dealt with exploration of the 24 reasons to listen to sad music, and the third section dealt with the participants chosen memorable sad music. I believe this a great method i could use to see how different types of genres of music can help with any kind of stress you may be having.

Eerola, Tuomas, and Henna-Riikka Peltola. “Memorable Experiences with Sad Music—Reasons, Reactions and Mechanisms of Three Types of Experiences.” Plos One, vol. 11, no. 6, 2016, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157444.