Effects of Music on Stress Reduction

Two experiments were conducted in order to examine the effect of music listening on mental and physical states, when the music is listened to by a subject under a condition involving experimentally induced mental stress. These experiments showed that listening to music reduced the mental stress promptly in comparison with non-music control condition. Music listening had a similar effect on physiological stresses as on psychological stresses, in regards that it reduced constantly the levels of these two sides of stresses.