Personality disorder refers to the obvious deviation of personality characteristics from the normal, making people in daily life and interpersonal relationship perform abnormal behaviors. Personality disorders have a negative impact on the development of individuals and bring a negative influence on society. In addition, people with personality disorders are easy to have unstable emotions and even cause harm to themselves and others.

Music therapy uses various forms of music to help patients heal emotionally. Among many, traditional Chinese music therapy can effectively relieve depression and improve the quality of people’s mental health. The study uses Chinese traditional music therapy to analyze its influence on the treatment of personality disorders. Fifty patients with personality disorders were randomly selected and divided into a research group and a control group, with 50 people in each group. The research group received conventional psychological intervention treatment, and the control group received traditional Chinese music therapy. After the experiment, the Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) was compared between the two groups. SPSS 23.0 statistical software was used for data processing.

Before the intervention, there was no statistical significance in baseline data between the two groups (P>0.05). After the intervention, the SAS scale score of the control group was significantly higher than that of the research group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).

Chinese traditional music therapy can effectively improve personality disorders and play a positive role in people’s mental state.