Personality Traits and Music Genre Preferences: How Music Taste Varies Over Age Groups

Personality traits are increasingly being incorporated in systems to provide a personalized experience to the user. Current work focusing on identifying the relationship between personality and behavior, preferences, and needs o‰en do not take into account di‚erences between age groups. With music playing an important role in our lives, di‚erences between age groups may be especially prevalent. In this work we investigate whether di‚erences exist in music listening behavior between age groups. We analyzed a dataset with the music listening histories and personality information of 1415 users. Our results show agreements with prior work that identi€ed personality-based music listening preferences. However, our results show that the agreements we found are in some cases divided over di‚erent age groups, whereas in other cases additional correlations were found within age groups. With our results personality-based systems can provide beŠer music recommendations that is in line with the user’s age.