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Music Performance Anxiety and Flow: Two Opposite States

Li Li

Abstract


Music performance anxiety (MPA) is the most common and the most serious problem for music performers. There is a substantial body of MPA research providing evidence that MPA is a debilitating phenomenon. A contrasting experience, and differing construct from MPA is flow. Flow is a state of consciousness where one becomes totally absorbed in what one is doing, to the exclusion of all other thoughts and emotions. A few researchers indicated that flow and MPA were negatively correlated. Accordingly, facilitating flow may provide a powerful tool for helping to alleviate MPA.

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Flow; Music performance anxiety; Music performance; State

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/cle.v2i5.6361

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