Personality and self-reported preference for music genres and attributes in a German-speaking sample

- Relationships of music preference and personality are replicated in a German sample.
- Five-factor structure of genre preference has been replicated for a German sample.
- Three-factor structure of attribute preference has been replicated for self-report.
- Most relationships to personality could be replicated.

Research of music preferences yielded consistent results about the relationship of music preference, biographic variables, and personality. This study replicates some of these findings in a German-speaking sample (N = 1329). We conducted an online study using self-report assessments. We confirmed the five-factor structure of music genre preference and the three-factor structure of music attribute preference using EFA and CFA. In addition to previous research, we showed that the three-factor structure of music attribute preference is also replicated in self-reported assessments. We examined the relationships of personality and music preferences using SEM. This study contributes to the overall picture of music preference research and provides additional insights into the little-examined field of the relationship of music attribute preference and personality.