Female Energy Levels

Mean change in energy levels of females listening to arousing music, in comparison to males.

Introduction

Sex differences have been observed in a wide array of cognitive domains, moreover, there has been little-published observations on how arousing music affects the energy levels in opposing sexes. The level of cognitive arousal between two genders can often be influenced by the type of music each person listens to (Schafer, T 2013). Likewise, this directly or indirectly correlates with the demographics and stereotypes one grew up with (Pratap, 2018). An experiment was conducted to measure the energy levels of participants before and after listening to arousing music (music segment one). The Independent variable was sex while the dependent

The above graph shows females had a 6 point higher change in energy levels compared to males. Females experienced a mean change in energy levels of 38.8 points while males experienced a change of 32.8 points out of 100. These results fully support the hypothesis which states that females will have a greater change in energy levels when compared to males.

The results support the hypothesis which states that females will have a greater change in energy levels when compared to males, however, these results cannot be religiously accepted because there were a great number of limitations while deriving the results i.e during the experimentation stages. According to the results, males had a lesser change in energy levels which could be linked to prior research that states males naturally have higher energy levels at rest when compared to females (Psychology -Today, 2018). Since males have higher energy levels than females by default, and it has been determined that there is a limit to the amount of energy one can have. Males are naturally closer to the energy limit, therefore, their energy levels can only increase to a certain level before it peaks. Conversely, females are further from the energy limit meaning when they experience the same level of arousing music, the arousal levels in women increase greater than that of males. (Hindawi,

In terms of the primary research method, the main weakness was the medium used to derive data i.e how the energy levels were measured. During the experiment, participants were to measure their energy levels before and after listening to arousing music, however, there is no classification on what precisely is arousing music for the context, and what type of arousal the music was designed to achieve, nonetheless, the experimentators ignored all these flaws and proceeded to infer that there was a linear correlation with increase in arousal and increase in energy which is why arousal music was used to determine energy levels and not energetic