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The Prevalence, Emotional Impact and Perceived Personal Significance of Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories Among Healthy Vietnamese Adults

Author(s) Bao Minh Chu
Country Vietnam
Abstract This study has examined the prevalence, emotional impact and perceived personal significance of music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) among healthy Vietnamese adults. By using an online quantitative survey with 61 participants (aged between 30 to 70 years), the research has investigated how frequently music triggers personal memories, the emotional outcomes of these memories, and their subjective importance to identity and self-continuity. Results revealed that MEAMs are highly prevalent, with 91.8% of participants experiencing them sometimes or often. Nostalgia emerged as the dominant emotional state (86.9%), accompanied by a mix of happiness and bittersweet feelings. Emotional intensity was moderately high and strongly correlated with perceived personal importance (ρ = .57, p < .001) and identity connection (ρ = .68, p < .001). No significant differences were found across preferences for traditional Vietnamese versus Western/contemporary music genres. These findings highlight MEAMs as a frequent, emotionally potent and personally meaningful phenomenon in Vietnamese adults, extending Western MEAM research to a Southeast Asian context. The study pinpoints music as an accessible, low-cost tool for emotional regulation and identity maintenance, with significant implications for mental health promotion and aging support in Vietnam and similar rapidly aging societies.
Keywords Music-evoked autobiographical memory; MEAM; Autobiographical Memory; Reminiscence bump; Nostalgia; Emotional Regulation; Identity Coherence, Personal significance; Vietnamese adults; Southeast Asia; Cultural moderators; Music and memory; Aging; Mental well-being; Quantitative survey; Non-Western population
Published In Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-08-26
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.76939
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