Authors: Satoshi Kawase, Masahiro Okano, Toni Bechtold, Olivier Senn.
（河瀬 諭, 岡野 真裕, Toni Bechtold, Olivier Senn）

Title: Japanese version of the Experience of Groove Questionnaire (EGQ-JA): Translation and validation.

Journal(書誌情報）: Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal

doi: 10.1525/mp.2025.2457869

論文URL: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2025.2457869

Abstract: The groove experience has been defined as a pleasurable urge to move that is induced in humans while listening to music. In the past, the intensity of this experience has been measured in various ways. In 2020, the English language Experience of Groove Questionnaire (EGQ-EN), with two scales and six items, was proposed as a concise, valid, and reliable psychometric inventory for measuring listeners’ urge to move and pleasure, followed by a German translation (EGQ-DE) in 2021. This study presents a Japanese version of the Experience of Groove Questionnaire (EGQ-JA). The items were carefully translated from English into Japanese. A listening experiment was conducted to investigate the psychometric properties of the EGQ-JA. The results show that the EGQ-JA replicates the two-factor structure of the original EGQ-EN and the EGQ-DE. Both scales had high internal consistency and good criterion-related validity. The EGQ-JA facilitates groove research among Japanese-speaking populations. This study also established the convergent criterion validity of the EGQ-JA scales with existing measurement scales, such as the Multiple Mood Scale and a nori item. Its equivalence with the English and German versions makes cross-cultural comparisons possible, and, thus, promotes culturally diverse research on the groove experience and music perception.

著者Contact先の email: satoshikawase.psy[at]gmail.com（[at]を@に変更してください。）

日本語によるコメント:「音楽に合わせて身体を動かしたくなる快い感覚」をグルーヴと呼びます。本論文では、グルーヴを測定するための日本語版質問紙（EGQ-JA）を作成しました。英語版（EGQ-EN）およびドイツ語版（EGQ-DE）をもとに項目を翻訳し、聴取実験を通じて検証しました。その結果、EGQ-JAは英語版と同様に2因子構造を再現し、高い内的一貫性と基準関連妥当性を示しました。また、既存の気分尺度やグルーヴに近似した日本の「ノリ」に関する項目との収束的妥当性も確認されました。EGQ-JAは日本語話者を対象としたグルーヴの研究を可能にし、国際的な比較研究にもご使用いただけます。

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