Hi all,
I am currently doing research on the relationship between music and emotions, as part of my PhD.
I have conducted a musical stimuli validation study, where 28 short musical tracks were composed, each composed with the intention of conveying a specific emotion to its listeners. To validate that each musical track is actually conveying the intended emotion, I carried out an online survey where participants (N=96) were asked to listen to each track and rate on Likert scales how much of 9 emotions they thought the music was expressing.
My supervisor instructed that I have to analyse the data using repeated measures ANOVA, and possibly also go into MANOVA.
My variables are the following:
Independent variable: music tracks (N=28)
Dependent variable: emotion rating
My issue is that the dependent variable was rated on 9 different scales. So for each track, 9 ratings were given.
For one track, participants had to rate how much of sadness, happiness, longing etc. (9 emotion scales in total) they thought the music is expressing. Furthermore, each track has a 'Target Emotion' assigned to it (which is another variable), and the aim of this experiment is to discover if the Target Emotion for each track was selected by the participants.
My question is if I am correct in using the music tracks as the independent variable and what my dependent variable should be as there are multiple ratings for each independent variable?
Any help would be appreciated, as I am quite stumped.
Regards,
Annaliese
I am currently doing research on the relationship between music and emotions, as part of my PhD.
I have conducted a musical stimuli validation study, where 28 short musical tracks were composed, each composed with the intention of conveying a specific emotion to its listeners. To validate that each musical track is actually conveying the intended emotion, I carried out an online survey where participants (N=96) were asked to listen to each track and rate on Likert scales how much of 9 emotions they thought the music was expressing.
My supervisor instructed that I have to analyse the data using repeated measures ANOVA, and possibly also go into MANOVA.
My variables are the following:
Independent variable: music tracks (N=28)
Dependent variable: emotion rating
My issue is that the dependent variable was rated on 9 different scales. So for each track, 9 ratings were given.
For one track, participants had to rate how much of sadness, happiness, longing etc. (9 emotion scales in total) they thought the music is expressing. Furthermore, each track has a 'Target Emotion' assigned to it (which is another variable), and the aim of this experiment is to discover if the Target Emotion for each track was selected by the participants.
My question is if I am correct in using the music tracks as the independent variable and what my dependent variable should be as there are multiple ratings for each independent variable?
Any help would be appreciated, as I am quite stumped.
Regards,
Annaliese