Effect of background music and the cultural preference to music on adolescents task performance

Title

Effect of background music and the cultural preference to music on adolescents task performance

Creator

Mohan A.; Thomas E.

Description

There is a plethora of research assessesing the effect of background music on task performance; however, these results have largely been inconclusive and divided. Music is a powerful medium that possesses a lot of positive benefits. This paper addresses the gaps in the existing literature and attempts to explore the effect of background music on adolescents performance in a reading comprehension task. It also examines the role of culture in the said effect of performance, by assessing whether ones own culture leads to a better performance when compared to both silence and music from a different culture. To this end, an experimental study was conducted on 34 adolescents between the ages of 1314 (M = 13.50, SD = 0.50). The results indicate that a strong positive effect is achieved on task performance when background music is present, especially one that identifies with the participants cultural background. 2020, 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Source

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, Vol-25, No. 1, pp. 562-573.

Date

2020-01-01

Publisher

Routledge

Subject

adolescents; Background music; concentration; culture; task performance

Coverage

Mohan A., Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Thomas E., Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India

Rights

All Open Access; Gold Open Access

Relation

ISSN: 2673843

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2019.1689368

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