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Here's the abstract of the article: (italics and bold added)
The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between personality and music preferences, using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. It was hypothesized that the sensing–intuition dimension would correlate with overall musical enjoyment. Thus, as compared with those participants who scored toward the sensing end, we expected high scorers (intuition end) to endorse more musical styles, particularly classical music, as well as to have greater musical training and involvement.
This hypothesis was tested and confirmed with a sample of 104 undergraduates. Moreover, extraversion also correlated with overall musical interest, particularly for popular/rock music. Finally, thinking–feeling correlated with liking for country and western music. Whereas past research has conceptualized music preferences in terms of approach to or avoidance of stimulation,
these findings support the notion of cultural involvement as a personality dimension.
Author Keywords: Personality; Music; Intuition; Myers Briggs Type Indicator
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The main part of the article:
Results and discussion
The musical background items formed two clusters. One involved background training and consisted of years of music theory; years of music lessons; years as a musical performer; and general level of understanding of music (Cronbach ALPHA=0.81). The second group of items, labeled musical involvement, consisted of: importance of music in your life; hours per day listening to music; hours per day one would like to listen to music; and level of involvement when listening to music (Cronbach ALPHA=0.73).
The primary measure from this study was overall liking of many kinds of music, defined as the number out of 60 music style items rated at least 3 out of 5 indicating some liking, M=30.3, S.D.=12.1. A regression model predicting this score from introversion, intuition, feeling, perceiving, gender, musical training and involvement accounted for 22% of the variance, with a multiple R of 0.47, F(7,96)=4.2, P<0.001. Significant weights were found for intuition (0.36, P<0.001) and introversion (−0.19, P<0.05). Thus intuitive and extraverted persons enjoyed more kinds of music even when controlling for musical background.
Supplementary factor scores were derived from a principal components analysis of the music ratings. This analysis suggested the use of 7 factors with eigenvalues of 2.26 or greater which explained 66% of the variance in music ratings. Factor 1 included the jazz, soul, and folk items and thus is a general factor. Factor 2 comprised classical music items. Factor 3 included all pop and some rock items. Factor 4 included all the soul and religious music items. Factor 5 consisted of country-western items and one folk item (bluegrass). Factor 6 included most rock music items. Factor 7 included all Broadway/TV/movie music items. Regression of each of these factors on the four MBTI scores yielded significant models for factors 1, 2, 3 and 5, P<0.05. Individual weights indicated that intuition predicted liking of jazz/soul/folk (0.36, P<0.001) and classical music (0.27, P<0.05). Extraverts enjoyed popular/rock music more than introverts (introversion WEIGHT=−0.34, P<0.05). Those scoring toward the feeling end of TF were more likely to endorse country-western music than those scoring toward the thinking end (=0.27, P<0.01). Finally, regression models predicted training and involvement from the MBTI; both models were significant and yielded significant weights just for intuition (0.29, P<0.01 for training; 0.46, P<0.001 for involvement).
A limitation of the present study is the datedness of the Music Preference Scale which was published by [Litle & Zuckerman, 1986]. Most critically, several participants noted the absence of the hip-hop and rap music styles. As popular music styles change, this scale may need periodic revision.
Nevertheless, the present results suggest that, in accord with prediction, intuitive people enjoy a wider variety of music as compared to people who prefer sensing. That is, those scoring as more intuitive were shown to have a particular preference for jazz, soul, folk, and classical music. In addition they had greater training and involvement in music which could contribute to their breadth of musical enjoyment ([Rawlings & Ciancarelli, 1997]). Because intuition is conceptually similar to the big five personality factor of openness or culture ( [Furnham, 1996 and McCrae & Costa, 1989]), these findings support the notion of cultural involvement as a personality factor.
Extraverts liked more types of music than introverts and in particular preferred popular/rock music (factor 2); introversion was not significantly related to factor 6 which included the harder rock items. These findings suggest that extraverts like the shared interest in popular music—connecting them to other people—rather than the stimulation provided by the rhythm or volume of the music. This could reflect differences in the extraversion concept between Jung and Eysenck or the MBTI and Eysenck's scales. Feeling people tended to like country and western music more than those oriented toward thinking. This may be attributed to the emotional pull of at least some country music (e.g., those with patriotic, family or story themes, "tear-jerkers")
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You should be able to reach this and many other articles about MBTI by going to:
www.sciencedirect.com
and searching for "Music preference correlates of Jungian types" or just "myers briggs"
Hope this interests somebody.
-Lucas :D