Music in adolescence: musical preference in contexts

Autor	PhDr. Pavel Mužík
Organisation	Pedagogická fakulta, Univerzita Palackého Olomouc
Year	2010
Research type	Ph.D. thesis
Annotation	The thesis deals with musical taste in adolescence in context of various aspects of adolescents´ lives. Theoretical part focuses on adolescence as a socio-psychological phenomenon, musical preference as a product of social a psychological factor, and on specific intersections of musical taste i. adolescence and miscellaneous phenomena within this developmental period. The chapter is based on review of previous theoretical and empirical reflections of the subject, both abroad and homegrown, and these are mutually compared. Empirical part consists of two original surveys. The first one examines structure of musical preferences in adolescence, relevance of this structure to musical properties and to the functions of music. Furthermore, it explores current music consumption trends among adolescents, and explicates them by means of various factors, such as gender, age or musical activity. The second survey explore musical taste in context of social and demographic attributes of adolescents, their way of leisure, fashion, media consumption, their systems of values, self-esteem and attitudes to other phenomena of the present social space. The results indicate that musical preference and motivation to music listening is heterogeneous among youth, and the differences stem from unequal social, psychological and cultural attributes of adolescents.
Keywords	adolescence, music, musical preference, sociology, psychology
Research type	comparative research
Start date	2. 1. 2009
End date	21. 1. 2010
Obor	AN Psychology
Email	hejlova@pdfnw.upol.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Research location	Pedagogická fakulta, Univerzita Palackého Olomouc, Žižkovo náměstí 5 Olomouc 77140
Organisation	Pedagogická fakulta, Univerzita Palackého Olomouc
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