Music and Your Personality Type

Musical tastes and personality type are closely related to it. Based on a world scale research, your favorite music may be a reflection of your personality self.

Scientific research on the relationship of music tastes with personality, made Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University. By involving tens of thousands of people around the world, he claimed his research as the largest study to a similar type of research he had done before.

To the BBC, North described the research as a surprising and significant. "We always suspected a link between music taste and personality. This is for the first time that we have managed to examine in detail the real thing. Has never been a single one that examines the scale like this before," he said.

The most interesting findings of the North's research are the similarity between the classical music enthusiast and heavy metal. "One of the most striking is the similarities between fans of classical music and heavy metal. They're creative, quiet but not outgoing," he said.

North also said this research will be useful for marketing purposes. "If you understand a person's musical tastes, then you will be able to say what kind of personality, of whom and what sells," he added.

In his research, North asked for more than 36,000 participants from around the world for averaging the 104 types of music. They were also asked about the aspects of personality. To continue this research and Professor North, who is also Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Heriot-Watt University, plans to involve the participants to take part fill out a short questionnaire online.

Music and Your Personality Type:

BLUES: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing, gentle and quiet

JAZZ: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing and calm

CLASSIC: High self-esteem, creative, introverts and quiet

RAP: High self-esteem, outgoing

OPERA: High self-esteem, creative, gentle

COUNTRY and WESTERN: Hardworking, outgoing

REGGAE: High self-esteem, creative, not hardworking, outgoing, gentle and quiet

DANCE: Creative, outgoing, not gentle

INDIE: Low self-esteem, creative, not hardworking, not gentle

BOLLYWOOD: Creative, outgoing

ROCK / HEAVY METAL: Low self-esteem, creative, not hardworking, not outgoing, gentle, quiet

POP: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle, not quiet

SOUL: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing, gentle, quiet