Relationship of Music Appreciation and Emotional Intelligence to Relational Health

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between music appreciation and emotional intelligence to relational health. Participants consisted of 848 adults aged 18-80 (M = 38, SD = 12.71) from 2 independent sampling sources, Mechanical Turk (n = 430, 51%) and Social Media (n = 418, 49%). The study consisted of three separate hypotheses: (a) as a set of variables, relevant demographic data, degree of music appreciation, and emotional intelligence scores will significantly predict overall relational health scores; (b) music appreciation and emotional intelligence scores will individually and significantly predict relational health scores; (c) music appreciation and emotional intelligence scores will significantly interact to predict relational health scores. Data analysis included a four step hierarchical multiple regression to investigate the relationship between music appreciation and emotional intelligence on relational health scores.