Everyone experiences stress at certain times in their lives. This feeling can motivate, however, if it persists for a prolonged period, it leads to negative changes in the human body. Stress is characterized, among other things, by increased blood pressure, increased pulse and decreased alpha-frequency brainwave activity. An overview of the literature indicates that music therapy can be an effective and inexpensive method of improving these factors. The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of various types of music on stress level in subjects. The conducted experiment involved nine females, aged 22. All participants were healthy and did not have any neurological or psychiatric disorders. The test included four types of audio stimuli: silence (control sample), rap, relaxing music and music triggering an autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) phenomenon. The impact of individual sound types was assessed using data obtained from four sources: a fourteen-channel electroencephalograph, a blood pressure monitor, a pulsometer and participant’s subjective stress perception. The conclusions from the conducted study indicate that rap music negatively affects the reduction of stress level compared to the control group (p < 0.05), whereas relaxing music and ASMR calms subjects much faster than silence (p < 0.05).

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脑电，心脏测量和主观压力水平下不同声音对压力水平的影响：一项初步研究

每个人在生活中的某些时候都会承受压力。这种感觉可能会激发，但是，如果持续很长时间，则会导致人体的负面变化。除其他外，压力的特征是血压升高，脉搏增加和阿尔法频率脑电波活动减少。文献综述表明，音乐疗法可以是改善这些因素的有效且廉价的方法。这项研究的目的是分析各种音乐对受试者压力水平的影响。进行的实验涉及9名22岁的女性。所有参与者均健康，没有任何神经或精神疾病。测试包括四种类型的音频刺激：静音（对照样本），说唱，放松的音乐和触发自主感觉子午线反应（ASMR）现象的音乐。使用从四个来源获得的数据评估了每种声音类型的影响：十四通道脑电图仪，血压计，脉搏计和参与者的主观压力感知。进行的研究得出的结论表明，说唱音乐与对照组相比对减轻压力水平有负面影响（p <0.05），而轻松的音乐和ASMR使对象平静的速度要比沉默快得多（p <0.05）。