title: Exploring the relation between personality and the appreciation of rock music.
abstract: Scores on five personality characteristics, extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism as well as reactive and proactive rebelliousness, and the appreciation of soft/nonrebellious and hard/rebellious rock-music videotapes were explored. After completing the personality tests, female and male undergraduates were exposed to rock-music videotapes and asked to rate various aspects of their enjoyment of each. Analysis indicated that psychoticism and reactive rebelliousness were associated with enjoyment in a parallel fashion. Specifically, respondents scoring high on psychoticism or high on reactive rebelliousness enjoyed hard/rebellious rock-music videotapes more than did their peers scoring low on psychoticism or low on reactive rebelliousness. The reverse was evident for the enjoyment of soft/nonrebellious rock-music videotapes. In contrast, scores on extraversion, neuroticism, and proactive rebelliousness were not associated with enjoyment. Gender differences emerged, however; women (n = 78) enjoyed soft/nonrebellious rock music more than did men (n = 60); and conversely, men enjoyed hard/rebellious rock music more than did women.
authors.affiliation: University of Kentucky, USA.
authors.forename: T O
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Weaver
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zillmann
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010551:Personality; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012925:Social Conformity; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014743:Videotape Recording