The efficacy of music for emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: An Analysis of Personal and Context-Related variables. Dataset.

This is the raw data used in the following paper: Martínez-Castilla, P., Gutiérrez-Blasco, I.M., Spitz, D.H., & Granot, R. (2021). The efficacy of music for emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain: An Analysis of Personal and Context-Related variables. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:647837. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647837
The study aimed to analyze the impact of personal and contextual variables on the perceived efficacy of musical behaviors to fulfill adults’ emotional wellbeing-related goals during the lockdown established in Spain. Personal variables included age, gender, musical training, personality, resilience, and perception of music’s importance. Contextual variables referred to living in a region with a high COVID-19 impact, perception of belonging to a risk group, being alone, having caring responsibilities during confinement, and amount of time of music listening as compared to prior to the crisis. The study was conducted retrospectively during August–December and the answers of 507 adults were analyzed. Only personal, but not COVID-19 context-related variables, showed an impact on music’s efficacy.