By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent 12:01AM GMT 21 Mar 2007
Relación heavy metal y altas capacidades
19.05.2011 02:27
Según un estudio realizado por la Universidad de Warwick, sobre 1.057 miembros del "National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth", los metaleros son frecuentemente extremadamente inteligentes, y utilizan su música como forma de autoayuda para ajustarse mejor a la sociedad.
"Existe literatura que relaciona el heavy metal con la delicuencia y un pobre rendimiento académico, sin embargo hemos encontrado un grupo que contradice esto" dice el psicólogo investigador Stuart Cadwallader. "Observamos a un grupo con autoestima por debajo de la media que no se sienten bien adaptados. Se sienten estresados y utilizan el heavy metal como forma de aliviar dicho estrés. Probablemente las personas de altas capacidades encuentren más presión que sus compañeros, y usan la música para eliminar la negatividad".
Stuart Cadwalled comenta: "Existe la percepción de que a los chicos de altas capacidades les gusta la música clásica y pasan mucho tiempo leyendo. Opino que ese estereotipo es inadecuado" y así lo demuestran en su estudio.
"Los participantes comentaron que apreciaban la complejidad y los, a veces, temas políticos, más que, seguramente, la mayoría de las canciones pop. Esto tiende a preocupar a los adultos, pero pienso que es simplemente algo catártico. No es un indicador de problemas."
Los investigadores entrevistaron a 1.057 miembros de la Academia, en la que 120.000 están entre el 5% de los mejores, en un rango de edad entre 11 y 19 años. Los fans de heavy metal presentaban nivel de autoestima más bajo y peores relaciones familiares y sociales. El investigador Cadwallader mantuvo unas discusiones online con 19 miembros de la academia, 17 de los cuales eran fans del heavy, hablaron de escuchar bandas como System of a Down, Slipknot, Tool, Tool, Dargon Force, Forward Russia and Inn Flames cuando estaban de mal humor, utilizándola para desahogar la frustración y el enfado.
Un estudiante dijo: "Me ayuda con el estrés. Es loque tiene su "thrashinees" general. No puedes arrojar al suelo tu ira, y escuchar música al mismo tiempo con otro tipo de música."
Dan Silver, editor asistente de la revista musical NME, que ha trabajado para Kerrang y Metal Hammer comenta: "Muchos de los temas de la música Heavy son sobre alienación. Si tienes esta clase de sentimientos, puedes obtener mucho de esta música y de la comunidad de fans que está en ella".
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Heavy metal 'a comfort for the bright child'
Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research.
The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose offspring, usually long-haired, are devotees of Iron Maiden, AC/DC and their musical descendants.
Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.
Stuart Cadwallader, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, will present the findings at the British Psychological Society conference in York today.
He said: "There is a perception of gifted and talented students as being into classical music and spending a lot of time reading. I think that is an inaccurate stereotype. There is literature that links heavy metal to poor academic performance and delinquency but we found a group that contradicts that.
"We are looking at a group with lower than average self-esteem that does not feel quite as well adjusted. They feel more stressed out and turn to heavy metal as a way of relieving that stress.
"Participants said they appreciated the complex and sometimes political themes of heavy metal music more than perhaps the average pop song. It has a tendency to worry adults a bit but I think it is just a cathartic thing. It does not indicate problems."
The researchers surveyed 1,057 members of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth - a body whose 120,000 student members are within the top five per cent academically in the 11-19 age range.
Asked for their favourite type of music, 39 per cent said rock, 18 per cent R&B and 14 per cent pop. Six per cent said heavy metal and a third rated it in their top five genres.
The heavy metal fans in the study had lower self-esteem and more difficulties in family relationships and friendships.
Mr Cadwallader then held an online discussion involving 19 members of the academy, 17 of whom were heavy metal fans. They spoke of listening to bands including System of a Down, Slipknot, Tool, Dragon Force, Forward Russia and In Flames when they were in a bad mood and using it to work off frustrations and anger.
One student said: "It helps me with stress. It's the general thrashiness of it. You can't really jump your anger into the floor and listen to your music at the same time with other types of music."
Mr Cadwallader added: "Perhaps gifted people experience more pressure than their peers and use the music to purge this negativity."
Dan Silver, assistant editor of the music magazine NME who has worked for Kerrang! and Metal Hammer, said: "Many themes of heavy metal are about alienation. If you have these kinds of feelings there is a lot you can get out of the music and the community of fans who are into it."