This study explores the potential of AI-generated music for stress reduction and healing in terms of the impact of social stress on mental health. After the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, industrial and economic uncertainty increased dramatically, and the emotional and psychological state of individuals became a stressful phenomenon. Stress is perceived differently for each person, such as nervousness, unpleasant external forces, or non-specific reactions. Psychologists believe that stress is a stimulus that reflects the assessment of threat perception, coping patterns, psychological defense, and social environment. Stress encompasses biochemical, physiological, behavioural, and psychological changes. According to the World Health Organization, 70% to 90% of psychosomatic disorders are mainly caused by emotional stress and psychology. Therefore, music is a medicine for the soul, The United States Psychological Association (APA) has studied that music can improve the body's immune system, reduce stress, reduce preoperative anxiety, and found that music can increase the body's immunoglobulin A and natural killer cells, and cells can attack viruses to improve the effectiveness of the body's immune system and reduce stress hormone cortisol content, so music has many benefits for body.
The objectives of this study : 1. To prevent psychological problems and alleviate stress, anxiety and underlying physiological conditions. 2. Using music as an emotional connection, comprehensively understand the crux of physiological and psychological states, design new strategies and methods, and develop a new type of music healing direction. The research process is divided into four steps, Step1: define the experimental question: the relationship between stress and music, and does music have the effect of relieving stress? Step 2: Experimental and Method Design: Experimental Design: (1) Music Editing (Test Materials) (2) Stress Assessment Form Test and Provide In- depth Interview Content Design on Stress Conditions and How to Cope with and Adjust to Stress (3) Conduct AI- generated Music Genre Tests and Responses ; The research method was participatory, qualitative and quantitative analysis. Step 3: Participant data analysis: (1) music samples and the subject's emotional response (2) comparison and analysis of the difference between the subject and the researcher in each generative AI music work, and measure whether the change in heart rate value is the influence of music with a simple physiological measuring instrument. Step 4: Constructing Patterns: Establish new vocabulary with specific emotions as a basis for subsequent testing, and concretize musical characteristics and structural elements into new definitions. Analysis of the results of this study: 1. Different music experiences can allow the parties to participate in the creation to achieve stress relief. 2. The measured values found that music helps to reduce heart rate, although the difference in the presentation of music works does not affect the final result, even if the produced music style is different, the emotional feelings and reactions are positive. Therefore, the conclusion of this study is that in the part of the stress assessment standard test and in-depth interview, there are three factors of stress: family, work, and interpersonal relationship, and the solution is that the participants use music as a medium to reduce stress and heal, which is also the most direct and fastest way to reduce the feeling of depression and negative emotional influence, and change their mood and adjust their mood to the most comfortable state through music. After the questionnaire interviews and experiences provided by the participants, the emotional response content was given, and new results were found, such as new music forms: bedroom, Lo-fi, Korea music, which did not appear in many previous research papers on related music genres. Experiment 2: The researchers and testers also found that: 1. Stress and music are positively correlated and connected.2. Music can be designed according to personal preferences to achieve their own stress reduction effect, rather than being limited by a fixed form of music type. For the follow-up research, a new model criterion will be constructed: it can increase the emotional response of different test groups to music and introduce new music genres for in-depth discussion and research, find new opportunities and develop new musical perspectives.