Houter, Jet (2024) Musical Experience in Primary School Children: Its Relationship with Musical Creativity and Autonomy Support. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Creativity is nowadays seen as an important skill. One of the underlying mental processes is divergent thinking. Creativity emerges from the interaction between the actor, environment, and task. Not much is known about the child (actor) as the center focus of these interactions. Therefore, this research examines this by investigating the influence of musical experience on children’s level of divergent thinking. Earlier research has linked musical experience to creativity. Furthermore, since the environment might stimulate creativity, the child-environment relationship was included by exploring the level of autonomy support given by an adult to children with and without musical experience. It was expected that children with musical experience showed higher levels of divergent thinking on a musical task compared to children without musical experience. The level of autonomy support was investigated exploratively. Videos of the participants (primary school children, N = 12, Mage = 7.8) performing a musical task with an adult were coded on the level of autonomy support and divergent thinking. A Monte Carlo analysis and visual inspection were performed on the coded data, complemented with a qualitative analysis. The results showed no differences for the level of divergent thinking between the groups. For autonomy support, the adult provided more instruction (low autonomy support) to children without musical experience. In general, the within-group differences were higher than the between-group differences. This research indicates that children might have different needs during a musical task to stimulate their musical creativity, which requires an adaptive, autonomy supportive approach by the teacher. Keywords: Divergent thinking, creativity, primary school children, musical experience, autonomy support
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Steenbeek, H.W. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Talent Development and Creativity (TDC) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2024 08:56 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2024 08:56 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3679 |
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