Abstract
It is called “absorption” that people are obsessed with music to the extent listening situations are forgot any more, and it is associated with intense emotional experiences. In this study, we developed a scale to measure absorption tendency for music and examined its reliability and validity. Based on listenerʼs representations of sensations and emotions in music listening, we developed the scale involved in 19items, which consisted of three factors; that is, “forgetting of time and ambient “, “absorption and fusion “, and “attention to acoustic characteristics“. Coefficients of reliability by the test-retest method were .60-.62 for three factors. Pearsonʼs correlations of scores of the absorption tendency scale for music and other absorption scales (the Japanese version III and CEQ-J) were .43-.49, which were significant but not so high. We examined absorptions to actual music listening as a predictive validity. High absorption tendency group was absorbed in music more than low group (t(39)=4.21, p < .001). These results showed the sufficient reliability and validity of the absorption tendency scale for music.
