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Aim of the study: The main aim of the study was to examine how use of music is related to achieving positive affect among people who prefer different strategies of emotion regulation. Research method. 256 participants were examined in correlation study. The Way of Listening to Music Questionnaire was created for research purposes. Previous questionnaires used in studies on music listening consisted most often of following scales: cognitive, emotional, in background or physical. In our questionnaire, we assumed that relationship between music listening and emotion regulation could be divided into two components: induction of strong emotional experience and listening to music in order to enhance positive mood. Results. We made Exploratory Factor Analysis, which explained 47% of variation. The analysis resulted in extraction of three components consistent with the theoretical assumptions. In the next step we examined relationship between positive aftect, music questionnaire scales and emotion regulation strategies. The study shows relationship between positive affect and emotion regulation strategies - with suppression (r= -0,31, p<0,01) and cognitive reappraisal (r=0,25, p<0.01) and with listening to music to enhance positive mood (r= 0,27, p<0,01). Moreover, the regression analysis confirmed that adding listening to music to enhance positive mood to model consisting of two emotion regulation strategies, significantly improves prediction of subjects' positive mood. Conclusion. The research is an important step in understanding how people use music for emotion regulation. The analysis has shown that music can be an additional way to achieve positive affect, independent from emotion regulation strategies, but only if it is used in order to enhance positive mood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper discusses some of the research findings about relationships between emotion regulation strategies, narrative inclination and job performance. The article presents the data from the study conducted among call centre agents working in environment that involves high skills in coping with emotions. The data indicate a negative correlation between suppression and job performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]