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KMID : 1148220130090040267
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2013 Volume.9 No. 4 p.267 ~ p.283
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A Study on the Effect of Music Listening on Middle School Students' Attentiveness
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Kang Kyoung-Sun
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Abstract
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This study was to exam the effect of music on attention of middle school students. 104 students with normal ranged intelligency were selected for the study. The subjects of the experiment performed FAIR test 1 without any treatment in the first measurement. 4 months later the subjects were divided into a background music group, a foreground music group and a non-music group and performed FAIR test 2 under each condition. The collected data was analysed by using SPSS 12 Analysis Covariance(ANCOVA). The results showed that there were significant differences between the background music group, the foreground music group and the non-music group in selective attention score(P), quality control score(Q) and continuation score(R). In the descriptive statistics the background music group showed highest score in selective attention, quality control and continuation and the foreground music group lowest score. However, there were no statistically significant differences in selective attention score between the foreground music group and the non-music group, in quality control score between the non-music group and the background music group and in continuation score between the foreground music group and the non-music group. The results of this study indicate that background music which induces positive emotion and low arousal level has positive effect on middle school students' attentiveness.
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KEYWORD
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Music Listening, Selective Attention, Foreground Music, Background Music
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