Personality, Coping with Stress and Spirituality of Musicians

The practice of music is expected to have a greater impact on the behavior of the practitioner. In the view of this, the present investigation is taken up to study whether the musicians are differing significantly from nonmusicians on their personality, coping with stress and spirituality. To achieve this objective Eysenk's personality inventory, brief cope by Carver and spirituality questionnaire by Jochen et al. were used for administration on 40 musicians residing in Hubli-Dharwad of Karnataka state. The age of both samples range from 21 to 73 years. The obtained results revealed that non-musicians have significantly very high neuroticism score than musicians (t=3.62; p<0.001) It means musicians have higher emotional balance than those non-musicians. Further musicians have shown significantly very higher active coping (t=5.49; p<0.001) and planning (t=4.27; p<0.001) than non-musicians. It is also observed that non-musicians have significantly higher coping with stress in terms of acceptance (t=7.08), humor (t=3.79), religion (t=2.83) and behavior disengagement (t=−8.21) and the results on of the spirituality questionnaire indicate that non-musicians have significantly very higher spirituality in terms of belief in God (t=−7.25), search for meaning (t=−7.37), mindfulness (t=−5.26), and feeling of security (t=−6.12).