What are people's experiences and feelings about music?

The Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire is a 20-question measure of people's experiences and feelings about music, as well as how they value the rewards of music. The question measures 6 variables: music seeking, emotion evocation, mood regulation, sensory-motor engagement, social reward, and a total score. This survey can be used to explore relationships between experiences and feelings about music and variables like age, emotional regulation, and mental health. Past research suggests that some people experience musical anhedonia, meaning they don't feel pleasure when listening to music. However, these people can still enjoy other sounds (Kathios et. al, 2024).

Resources:

• Mas-Herrero, E., Marco-Pallares, J., Lorenzo-Seva, U., Zatorre, R. J., & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2012). Individual differences in music reward experiences. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 31(2).
• Kathios, N., Patel, A. D., & Loui, P. (2024). Musical anhedonia, timbre, and the rewards of music listening. Cognition, Volume 243.105672, ISSN 0010-0277.

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Disclaimer
Any languages that are currently offered besides English for this survey are not necessarily validated translations. This survey was translated using Google Translate and verified by members of the community.

What data is collected? How is it scored?
The following variables are recorded:

• BMRQ_MS_subscore: Higher scores mean participants spend more time, effort, or money to listen to and inform themselves about music.
• BMRQ_EE_subscore:Higher scores mean participants experience more strong emotions as a result of listening to music.
• BMRQ_MR_subscore:Higher scores mean participants reported a greater degree to which music serves to calm, comfort, or otherwise help improve their mood.
• BMRQ_SM_subscore:Higher scores mean participants experience more physical reactions when listening to music.
• BMRQ_SR_subscore:Higher scores mean participants have a higher social reward regarding music.
• BMRQ_totalScore: The sum of all five subscores. Higher scores mean participants have a higher degree of deriving pleasure from engaging in any/all musical experiences.
  Raw data: 20 questions broken into 6 variables (music seeking, emotion evocation, mood regulation, sensory motor, social reward, and a total score). Each variable's score ranges from 4-20, except for BMRQ_total which ranges from 20-100.
  
  Calculation:
  Subscores are determined by adding the scores of the questions in each variable. The Likert scale ranges from 1 ("strongly disagree") to 5 ("strongly agree") and each variable has 4 questions so the sums of the scores will range from 4-20, except for BMRQ_total which has 20 questions and ranges from 20-100. If an item is reverse-scored (denoted with an R after the question number), the score is subtracted from 6. Specifically, if a question is reverse-scored, and the participant responds "strongly disagree", then this question will be scored as a 5 rather than 1.
  
  
  • BMRQ_MS_subscore: Sum of questions 7, 11, 17, 2R
  • BMRQ_EE_subscore: Sum of questions 3, 8, 12, 18
  • BMRQ_MR_subscore: Sum of questions 4, 9, 14, 19
  • BMRQ_SM_subscore: Sum of questions 10, 15, 20, 5R
  • BMRQ_SR_subscore: Sum of questions 1, 6, 13, 16
  • BMRQ_totalScore: Sum of questions 1, 2R, 3, 4, 5R, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20