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10.57760/sciencedb.012go 2026-09-20T10:10:50Z

2026-09-20 Cross-sectional survey dataset on music emotion regulation, psychological resilience, and psychological distress among Chinese college students (N = 838) doi:10.57760/sciencedb.012go en This dataset originates from a cross-sectional online questionnaire study investigating the association between music emotion regulation behavior (MERB) and psychological distress among Chinese college students, and the mediating role of psychological resilience together with the moderating roles of openness to experience and neuroticism. Data were collected between March and May 2025 through an online survey platform distributed via university student-affairs offices and course learning platforms at six comprehensive universities in eastern and central China, using convenience sampling. After quality control—excluding questionnaires with straight-line responding across all items and completion time below 120 seconds—838 valid records were retained. All items are self-report Likert-type scales; original item responses are provided without imputation, with item-level missingness handled in the published analysis using full information maximum likelihood (FIML); the overall item-level missing rate is below 3%.The dataset is a single comma-separated values (CSV) file (UTF-8 encoding) containing 838 rows, each corresponding to one valid participant, and the following columns. Demographic variables include sex, grade, major category, prior participation in music-related activities, self-rated family economic status, and prior mental-health diagnosis; age was collected in three bands (17–20, 20–23, and over 23) in the original questionnaire but is not included in this file. The music emotion regulation measure comprises 21 items (columns XW11–XW73) organized into seven subscales of three items each, rated 1 (never) to 5 (always). Psychological resilience is measured by 10 items (RX1–RX10) rated 0 (not true at all) to 4 (true nearly all the time). Psychological distress is measured by the 21-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (YYJL1–YYJL21), with seven items each for depression, anxiety, and stress, rated 0 (did not apply to me at all) to 3 (applied to me very much or most of the time). Personality is measured by the 10-item Chinese Ten-Item Personality Inventory (RG1–RG10), rated 1–5, where items RG9 and RG10 are reverse-keyed; openness and neuroticism are each formed by summing two rescaled items (theoretical range 4–12). All entries are integers. No derived subscale means or composite scores are included; researchers compute these as needed.The data were collected at a single time point and therefore contain no temporal resolution. Although participants were drawn from six universities, no school name or school identifier is included, to preserve anonymity as agreed in the informed consent. The sample is predominantly undergraduate (n = 778) with a smaller graduate-student subgroup (n = 60). Because the two-item personality measure showed low inter-item reliability in this sample (openness r = −0.33; neuroticism r = 0.09), personality-based inferences should be made cautiously. Scores reflect subjective self-report and are subject to common-method bias; they do not constitute behavioral or physiological measures. Missing values are retained as empty cells and have not been imputed. No identifiable information (name, student ID, contact details, IP address) is included.The CSV file can be opened directly in Excel, SPSS, R, Python (pandas), or any standard spreadsheet or statistical software. music emotion regulation; psychological resilience; psychological distress; college students; personality traits; openness to experience; neuroticism; cross-sectional survey; self-report questionnaire; China Han wu PUBLIC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ dataset Science Data Bank