Survey on Music and Emotional Wellbeing During COVID-19 Lockdown in Spain, 507 Adults

Martínez-Castilla et al.'s dataset contains raw survey data from 507 Spanish adults collected between August and December 2020. The data was used to analyze the impact of personal and contextual variables on the perceived efficacy of music for emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown. Personal variables include age, gender, musical training, personality, resilience, and perception of music's importance.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between personality traits and perceived music efficacy based on survey variables.
• Analyzing the impact of musical training on emotional coping strategies during lockdown.
• Investigating demographic differences in music listening habits and wellbeing outcomes.
• Training classifiers to predict resilience levels from personal and contextual survey responses.

Strengths

• Data from 507 adult respondents provides a substantive sample size.
• Includes a range of personal and contextual variables as described in the associated paper.
• Dataset is directly linked to a peer-reviewed publication in Frontiers in Psychology.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and geographic bias specific to Spain during a particular lockdown period.

Provenance

Source

Martínez-Castilla, Pastora via e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Retrospective survey conducted online.

Time Range

Data collection occurred August–December 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-11-16 05:33:19; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spain