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Music Preferences of Teenage Students in Relation to Listener Psychology and Environmental Influences

A survey was carried out to investigate music preferences of 436 teenage students from the four pilot schools offering music education in the Klang valley. Respondents were selected by random cluster sampling. Twenty-four brief music excerpts, six each of ethnic-related Malaysian music, pop, rock...

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Main Author: Yeoh, Miranda Poh Khoon
Format: Thesis
Language:English
English
Published: 2002
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Teenagers - Songs and music - Malaysia
Music students - Malaysia
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spelling my.upm.eprints.93432024-02-20T06:42:21Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9343/ Music Preferences of Teenage Students in Relation to Listener Psychology and Environmental Influences Yeoh, Miranda Poh Khoon A survey was carried out to investigate music preferences of 436 teenage students from the four pilot schools offering music education in the Klang valley. Respondents were selected by random cluster sampling. Twenty-four brief music excerpts, six each of ethnic-related Malaysian music, pop, rock and western art music were utilised. Besides studying the whole sample, music preferences of KBSM Music students (n = 205) were compared to those of non-music students (n = 231). KBSM Music students obtained higher preference means for most of the excerpts, especially instrumental ones as compared to the non-music students. Music students also had higher preference means for all the four genres under study. Correlation analyses showed that three independent variables ('Familiarity', 'Influence of Mood', a psychological variable and 'Influence of Music Characteristics') with consistent moderate correlations with Music Preference and with preferences for all the genres for the whole sample and both subject option sub-samples. However, only the music sub-sample showed moderate correlations for the influence of other variables (Family, Peers, Teachers, Artistes/ Composers, Media and Incidental Conditioning) on western act music preference. For non-music students only, the psychological variable 'Wellness of Mood' showed a low but significant correlation with Music Preference, and preferences for the commercial genres, pop and rock. Only for non-music students, the personality dimensions 'Neuroticism', and 'Extraversion' showed low but significant correlations preference for commercial music. 2002-11 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9343/1/FPP_2002_29.pdf Yeoh, Miranda Poh Khoon (2002) Music Preferences of Teenage Students in Relation to Listener Psychology and Environmental Influences. Doctoral thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Teenagers - Songs and music - Malaysia Music students - Malaysia English
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topic Teenagers - Songs and music - Malaysia
Music students - Malaysia
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Music students - Malaysia
Yeoh, Miranda Poh Khoon
Music Preferences of Teenage Students in Relation to Listener Psychology and Environmental Influences
description A survey was carried out to investigate music preferences of 436 teenage students from the four pilot schools offering music education in the Klang valley. Respondents were selected by random cluster sampling. Twenty-four brief music excerpts, six each of ethnic-related Malaysian music, pop, rock and western art music were utilised. Besides studying the whole sample, music preferences of KBSM Music students (n = 205) were compared to those of non-music students (n = 231). KBSM Music students obtained higher preference means for most of the excerpts, especially instrumental ones as compared to the non-music students. Music students also had higher preference means for all the four genres under study. Correlation analyses showed that three independent variables ('Familiarity', 'Influence of Mood', a psychological variable and 'Influence of Music Characteristics') with consistent moderate correlations with Music Preference and with preferences for all the genres for the whole sample and both subject option sub-samples. However, only the music sub-sample showed moderate correlations for the influence of other variables (Family, Peers, Teachers, Artistes/ Composers, Media and Incidental Conditioning) on western act music preference. For non-music students only, the psychological variable 'Wellness of Mood' showed a low but significant correlation with Music Preference, and preferences for the commercial genres, pop and rock. Only for non-music students, the personality dimensions 'Neuroticism', and 'Extraversion' showed low but significant correlations preference for commercial music.
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title Music Preferences of Teenage Students in Relation to Listener Psychology and Environmental Influences
title_short Music Preferences of Teenage Students in Relation to Listener Psychology and Environmental Influences
title_full Music Preferences of Teenage Students in Relation to Listener Psychology and Environmental Influences
title_fullStr Music Preferences of Teenage Students in Relation to Listener Psychology and Environmental Influences
title_full_unstemmed Music Preferences of Teenage Students in Relation to Listener Psychology and Environmental Influences
title_sort music preferences of teenage students in relation to listener psychology and environmental influences
publishDate 2002
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