Development of Flow State Self-Regulation Skills and Coping With Musical Performance Anxiety: Design and Evaluation of an Electronically Implemented Psychological Program.
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2022 Laura Moral-Bofill, Andrés López de la Llave, Mᵃ Carmen Pérez-llantada et al. 23 citations
An electronic intervention program designed to develop psychological self-regulation skills helped performing musicians in Spain improve their flow state and sense of control while reducing musical performance anxiety and self-consciousness. The program used a quasi-experimental design with a control group, involving 62 musicians from various music colleges. After the intervention, the experimental group showed significant improvements in flow state and sense of control, and decreases in music performance anxiety and self-consciousness, while the control group did not. The changes demonstrated an inverse relationship between flow and anxiety, with worry and lack of control likely playing key roles in performance situations. Results are under discussion.