During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals have used music as a coping strategy (Henry, et al., 2021). Although many foreign authors (e. g. Granot et al., 2021) deal with the role of music during the COVID-19 pandemic, this research has not yet taken place in Slovenia. As part of my master's thesis, I wanted to research, how participants coped with stress during the pandemic, whether they coped with listening to music, how listening to music as a coping strategy correlates with age, music education, the importance of music for the participant, the level of stress, and working hours, and if there are any differences between individuals based on their gender, setting and family environment. I also wanted to know, whether listening to music increased during the pandemic, and whether are the MCS scales linked to the Brief COPE scales. In addition to questions about gender, the importance of music for the individual, etc., I used my own translation of the French MCS Questionnaire (Miranda, 2021) and the Slovenian version (Modic and Kobal Grum, 2020) of the Brief COPE Inventory (Carver, 1997). The results of my study showed that during the pandemic, participants used more constructive coping strategies than non-constructive ones, and aided themselves with music listening. Participants reported that they've been listening to music more frequently during the pandemic COVID-19 than before the pandemic. The importance of music for the participant correlated positively with listening to music as a coping strategy, whereas age correlated negatively. Correlations between the age of participants and listening to music as a coping strategy were the most statistically significant. Differences in coping with music listening between participants are most prominent based on their family environment. There were also mostly positive, low, and sometimes statistically significant correlations between the MCS and Brief COPE questionnaires.
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