{"id":393,"date":"2023-10-17T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2023-10-17T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:05:01","slug":"reasons-for-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/reasons-for-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for Singing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 By Brad Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people may enjoy singing.\u00a0\u00a0 Why do people like to sing?\u00a0\u00a0 There could be a number of reasons for singing.\u00a0 \u00a0In this article, I suggest that there are three basic reasons for singing.\u00a0\u00a0 These include happiness, self-expression, and a sense of community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Happiness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0It seems obvious that singing may foster happiness.\u00a0\u00a0 Singing can be a form of positive emotional expression.\u00a0 Moreover, for some people, it may convey a sense of achievement, and this feeling may increase happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Self-expression<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chong (2010) asked participants whether they enjoyed singing, and the reasons why they did or did not enjoy singing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One of the categories in the study for reasons for singing was <em>self-expression<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Self-expression can be viewed as partly involving expressing some aspects of one&#8217;s personality.\u00a0\u00a0 Singing may be one way of expressing some aspects of one&#8217;s personality.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, one can select a type of music that reflects one&#8217;s personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Sense of Community<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Singing can take place in a group.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, a group of friends could go to a restaurant or bar for karaoke.\u00a0 Karaoke may foster conversations, and the group may be supportive of each person&#8217;s singing.\u00a0 This could increase a sense of community.\u00a0 \u00a0This sense of community may reflect the feeling that one belongs to a group in which there is mutual support and similar interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0One of the categories for reasons for singing in Chong&#8217;s (2010) study was <em>interpersonal relationships, <\/em>which Chong indicated as involving assembling with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chong, H. J. (2010). Do we all enjoy singing? A content analysis of nonvocalists&#8217; attitudes toward singing. <em>The Arts in Psychotheraphy<\/em>, <em>37<\/em>, 120-124.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 By Brad Bell Many people may enjoy singing.\u00a0\u00a0 Why do people like to sing?\u00a0\u00a0 There could be a number of reasons for singing.\u00a0 \u00a0In this article, I suggest that there are three basic reasons for singing.\u00a0\u00a0 These include happiness, self-expression, and a sense of community. Happiness \u00a0It seems obvious that singing may foster happiness.\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/reasons-for-singing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reasons for Singing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}