摘要：Musical preferences, as the simplest form of affective response to music, are determined by the interaction of different factors. According to the theory of musical preferences (Rentfrow and Gosling, 2003), the most prominent role in the creation of musical preferences are personality traits, self-concept, and cognitive abilities. The aim of this study was to determine the musical preferences of students of social-humanistic and natural-technical sciences, and to examine the role of some sociodemographic characteristics and Big Five personality traits in the preferences of musical styles. The study included fifteen examples of different musical genres. In addition to the questionnaire in which participants (N = 415) assessed the degree of preferences for musical fragments, an inventory of personality traits (Goldberg, 2001) was used. By the use of an exploratory factor analysis of musical preferences, four factors were identified, suggesting a different factor structure compared to previous research. The results showed that participants generally preferred complex and conventional musical styles, while other musical styles showed a lower degree of preference. Sociodemographic characteristics, except gender, were not found to be significant correlates of music preferences. The results confirmed the hypothesis about the significant role of personality traits in predicting musical preferences. Significant main effects of gender and musical style preferences, as well as significant interaction effects of gender, areas of study and musical styles were found.
