Researchers found useful properties of heavy music for young people.

Paula Rowe and Bernard Gerin of the University of South Australia in their work entitled "Contextualization of Mental Health of Young Metalworkers: Community for Social Protection, Identification and Expansion of Musical Opportunities" found that metal positively affects young people aged 18-24 years, reports The Chronicle. Info with reference to Today.

In an attempt to refute the general idea of ??the negative impact of heavy music on health, the researchers found that the social community and musical interaction positively affect the psychological mood of young metal fans.

The study involved 23 Australian young men and five girls. They argue that they closely associate themselves with metal and feel that this community protects them from mental illnesses.

According to the survey, all these young people unite 4 main points: at school they were mocked or ignored; being outcasts or feeling anger, they enjoyed the influence of heavy music and lyrics; they felt protected inside the community of metalworkers, although in many cases at their age this feeling was rather imaginary;

adherence to metal helped them to resist offenders and hooligans, and also to find friends.

The researchers concluded that the metalwork community and heavy music help young people cope with personal problems and help them mature in the face of family or social setbacks.

It should be noted that this is not the first scientific work proving the positive effect of metal. A similar study in 2016 showed that heavy music helps listeners combat "existential anxiety" and reflections on death.

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