1. Happy mood maintenance
2. Revival and relaxation
3. Diversion or distraction
4. Emotional discharge and disclosure
5. Mental work
6. Solace
7. Energizing and "psyching up"

Music emotion regulated strategies

1. Large selection of different regulatory strategies
2. Music selected based on current mood not target mood
3. The regulation's goal is mood improvement 
4. Emotional components are interconnected
5. Music is a part of different phases of the emotional process

Elements of Stability

The nature of regulation provided by music stayed relatively the same throughout adulthood. This includes the regulatory goals and strategies. 

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Emotional self regulation is what contributes to the engagement in music at all ages. Music listening and engagement has been identified as an effective and common form of emotional self regulation and mood regulator. 

Connection of music and emotional self regulation

  Saarikallio, S. (2011). Music as emotional self-regulation throughout adulthood. Psychology of Music, 39(3), 307–327. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735610374894


Music as emotional self-regulation throughout adulthood

First Trend of Music as Emotional regulation throughout adulthood

Changes in the emotional self regulation aided by music were seen throughout adulthood. These changes were based off of psychosocial development, life changes, and personal life experiences. 

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