To understand the relationship between university students’ music preference and their personality nature, the present research investigated the Big Five personality nature, sensation seeking and music preferences of 93 Chi-nese university students.Results indicated that agreeableness was associated with Chinese traditional music and classic music negatively; openness (to experience) was associated with pop music, classic music and drama positively; ad-venture seeking and experience seeking related with classic music negatively and sensation seeking related negatively with pop music and classic music.Results of the study lead to cultural differences:the relationship of extraversion and high arousal music and pop music was positive, while studies using university students as samples from Japan, the U-nited States and Canada found a negative correlation between them; agreeableness was negatively related with tradi-tional music among Chinese college students, while the relationship between them was positive among American col-lege students; in western countries extraversion was positively related with vitality music, while among Chinese students, the relationship was not significant.Finally, the need to explore both personality and music genres more specifically was proposed.%为理解大学生音乐偏好与人格特质之间的关系，调查了93名大学生的大五人格特征、感觉寻求和音乐偏好。结果表明：宜人性与中国传统音乐、古典音乐呈负相关；开放性与流行音乐、古典音乐及音乐剧呈正相关；冒险寻求与古典音乐呈负相关；感觉寻求与流行音乐、古典音乐呈负相关。中国大学生大五人格特质与音乐偏好的相关与其他文化存在差异：外向性大五人格特质与高唤起度音乐和流行音乐之间的正相关关系。对日本、美国东南部学生和加拿大学生的已有研究发现二者之间呈负相关；宜人性与传统型音乐负相关，而美国大学生则表现为二者之间的正相关；西方相关研究发现活力型音乐与外向性显著正相关，本研究却未发现二者具有统计意义的相关。未来在更具体的人格维度上进行研究十分必要。
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