Music Engagement and performance on Gardner’s Intelligence Scale among Adolescents
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Abstract
The present study attempted to relate the level of music engagement with Gardner’s multiple intelligences among adolescents. Certain studies explain that music listening influences various cognitive processes, creativity, and emotions. As a result, some adolescents were exposed to a mix of music types within their selected music genre during their ongoing academics in the online mode, while others received no such specific music exposure. The sample comprised of 162 adolescents from Vishwakarma Institutes' English-medium schools in Pune, India, with 82 having prior music experience and 80 having no prior music experience. The Music Use Questionnaire developed by Chin and Rickard (2012) was used to assess music engagement, while the Multiple Intelligence Profiling questionnaire developed by Tirri and Nokelainen(2011) was employed to assess intelligence. The application of product moment correlation explains the significant relationship between the types of intelligence like linguistics, spatial, music, and interpersonal intelligence with various aspects of music engagement styles. Significant correlation differences were explored among music experienced and music non-experienced students on the significant correlations. The discussion, application and suggestions for further research are also discussed in the study.