Adding Music to Art Making to Reduce Stress in Elementary School Students

Download or read book Adding Music to Art Making to Reduce Stress in Elementary School Students written by Erin Maclean and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to determine if adding music to art making would have a stress reduction effect on elementary school students. Using a pre-post design with (N=34) elementary school-age students, the Smiley Faces Assessment Scale was used to measure change in levels of stress. Two art making conditions were used to compare results. Children in the experimental group (N=17) made a transitional object art piece with music playing during the activity, while the control group (N=17) participated in the same art making activity but did not have any music playing. The results of the study showed that adding music to art making did not have a statistically significant effect on the stress levels of elementary school students. However, art making alone did have a marginally significant effect on stress levels.