Determining How Music Helped Most of the People Get Through the Pandemic

A Qualitative Research Study

Presented to
The Faculty of
Samson Polytechnic College of
Davao City

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Technological Research 2 (Methods of

Research)
Hotel and Restaurant Technology

MICHELL R. BARING
June 2022
 Determining How Music Helped Most of the People Get Through the Pandemic

Chapter 1
Introduction
I. Background of the Study.
Music are applied to reduce depression and sadness can create a mood. Study
music, particularly, can be relaxing and help society beat anxiety or stress. Clearly,
music has the ability to help us feel better if we understand our moods and the type of
music that can help us regulate our feelings. Students, which are one of the core
community facility of the society must include in this research study.
Music listening can be an effective strategy for regulating affect, lending to positive well-
being. However, it is unclear how differences on disposition and personality can impact
music’s affective benefits in response to acute major real world stressful events, the
Covid-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to study how music is used to get
through with stress, loss, being alone or experiencing loneliness and cease across the
world. I will use a face to face survey to test if people from DHRT students in SPCD
used music to manage their emotions during quarantine and if the functions of music
depended on empathy, anxiety, depression, or being loss.
I want to find out a positive or if it is negative effect in relationship between the use of
music listening for affect regulation and current well-being, particularly for participants in
SPCD. I will use phenomenology to survey subjective people who has their experiences
out of it. Understanding how music is (or not) being used by individuals for affect
regulation during the coronavirus pandemic is an important step to understand whether
and how music could be used deliberately to mitigate negative effects of lockdown and
prolonged stress uncertainty.

The current study aims to contribute to the development of this understanding by

suppressing the following research questions:
1. Has the coronavirus pandemic had an influence on individual’s musical engagement?
And if so, how?
2. How are individuals engaging with music during the coronavirus pandemic?
3. Does music helps you get through to stress or your anxiety, depression and
loneliness? And if so, how?
II. Statement of the Problem
The pandemic brought most social activities to a screeching halt for over a year. We
weren’t allowed to eat in restaurants, exercise in gyms, meet with friends, or visit with
extended family. So many of us were left feeling bored, anxious, and lonely.

Stay-at-home orders meant many of our “go-to” coping skills were taken away.
Fortunately, most of us were still able to access music. So we wanted to learn how
many people relied on music to cope with the pandemic, and whether those people
found that music did in fact help their mental health.

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V. Scope and Limitations of the Study

The following are the scope and limitations of the study.

* As a researcher I will conduct a face to face survey to gather information from the
DHRT students in SPCD regarding how music can help them get through the pandemic.

* I will make an activity just like a simple music playlist to hear them out and interview
them how’s the feeling of listening to music.

* This study will be face to face survey for participants.

* The study will involve DHRT students in SPCD only.

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IV. Significance of the Study

This study will be of significant in disseminating study to recognize the benefits of

music. That may have already noticed that listening to or creating music helps DHRT
students in SPCD feel better specifically during this pandemic we experiencing.

Nowadays, a whopping 97% of our survey respondents said that they use music as a
tool to help their mental health. Forty-three percent of readers who listen to music
reported that more often than not, they’re using music to reinforce the mood they’re
already in. And while this can be helpful when feeling good, music can also reinforce
unpleasant feelings. Other studies have found that people with depression are not
always able to select music that will help them feel better. Consequently, they keep
listening to music that reinforces their feelings.