Journal article
MUSEBAQ
- Chin, Tan-Chyuan The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Coutinho, Eduardo University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Scherer, Klaus R. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Rickard, Nikki S. The University of Melbourne & Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Published in:
- Music Perception. - University of California Press. - 2018, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 376-399
English
Music engagement is complex and is influenced by music training, capacity, preferences, and motivations. A multi-modular self-report instrument (the Music Use and Background Questionnaire, or MUSEBAQ) was developed to measure a diverse set of music engagement constructs. Based on earlier work, a hybrid approach of exploratory and confirmatory analyses was conducted across a series of three independent studies to establish reliability and validity of the modular tool. Module 1 (Musicianship) provides a brief assessment of formal and informal music knowledge and practice. Module 2 (Musical capacity) measures emotional sensitivity to music, listening sophistication, music memory and imagery, and personal commitment to music. Module 3 (Music preferences) captures preferences from six broad genres and utilizes adaptive reasoning to selectively expand subgenres when administered online. Module 4 (Motivations for music use) assesses musical transcendence, emotion regulation, social, and musical identity and expression. The MUSEBAQ offers researchers and practitioners a comprehensive, modular instrument that can be used in whole, or by module as required to capture an individual’s level of engagement with music and to serve as a background questionnaire to measure and interpret the effects of dispositional differences in emotional reactions to music.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1525/mp.2018.35.3.376
- ISSN 0730-7829
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/171743
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