- Data, Statistics and AI for Well-Being of People and Organisations
- A cura di Luigi Fabbris, Alberto Franci, Pietro Renzi
Feeling good with music: Perceived value of music consumption
- Maria Cristiana Martini
- Luca Bassi
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-1062-1.51
Music is a pervasive part of daily life, playing an important role in the life of many people. Different studies have analysed the motivations underlying the choice to listen to music, highlighting a multiplicity of reasons: listening to music, in fact, responds to diversion, social, emotional, and identity-related needs. At the same time, music is a product, namely a cultural and symbolic product, and its consumption can be analysed in the framework of Sheth’s theory of consumption values (Sheth et al., 1991), i.e. identifying functional values, social values, emotional values, epistemic values and conditional values. In this paper we point out the analogies between the reasons why people listen to music that emerge from the literature, and Sheth’s theory of consumption values, and we measure the impact each motivation has in the experience of listening to music for a sample of 691 respondents. Furthermore, we analyse how these motivations differ across different groups of respondents and according to the platform/device people use to listen to music.
- Keywords:
- Theory of consumption values,
- Cultural consumption,
- Music,
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5622-9187
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
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Titolo del capitolo
Feeling good with music: Perceived value of music consumption
Autori
Maria Cristiana Martini, Luca Bassi
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1062-1.51
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Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Data, Statistics and AI for Well-Being of People and Organisations
Curatori
Luigi Fabbris, Alberto Franci, Pietro Renzi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
420
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1062-1
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979-12-215-1061-4
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979-12-215-1062-1
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979-12-215-1063-8
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Applied Statistics Series