Essay On The Effects Of Jazz Music On College Students

Abstract

Stress something everybody deals with some have more stress than others; but stress is especially seen in college students. Will jazz music have an effect on college student’s stress, is at the time an experiment trying to be conducted. The purpose of this study is to see if jazz music has a negative or positive effect on stress. In conducting this study, positive and negative connections with jazz music on students stress could be found. We can inform the public of the results if hearing jazz music can be positive or negative with reducing stress. The research study would be a simple between subject’s experimentation containing a single independent variable of two levels and a single dependent variable. The two levels of this independent variable would be the experimental group who will be exposed to jazz music and the control group that will not be exposed to any music. The hypothesis is that jazz music will have a moderate positive effect on college students stress levels.

Keywords: College

Especially college students with multiple papers being due, team projects, finals coming up, and their social life students stress increases at an all time high. It is essential because high levels of stress can lead to other health issues to arise like high blood pressure, anxiety, and etc. Stress is something that affects everybody, so finding a solution to reduce stress is crucial. Research conducted previously has mostly concentrated on classical, popular, heavy metal music, tested both genders, but having a dominant gender in the studies; on the other hand, jazz music has only been studied partially. I hypothesize that jazz music will have a moderate positive effect on college students stress. In finding positive or negative results in conducting this study the public can be inform that listening to jazz music can be favorable or harmful with reducing