Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v19i0.2708
Musical Temperament from a Developmental Perspective
Zoran Mihajlovski
; Faculty of Teacher Education, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius University
Abstract
An empirical differential study examining differences in personality traits and general intellectual ability among three different age-based groups of classical musicians (students attending a music high school, music university students and senior professionals with university degree in music) was conducted on Macedonian sample (288 respondents in total). Individual differences were tested employing four measuring instruments: 16PF, EPQ and NEO PI-R personality inventories, as well as the FRT (TRL) as an IQ test.
A differential (one-way ANOVA) approach based statistical data processing indicated several major differences in personality traits, but not in general intelligence among the groups. High school students proved to be more extroverted and more uncompromising, but also less conscientious and with lesser imagination than adults, while university students showed proneness to fantasy, unconventionality and appreciation of art and beauty more than others. Overall, the university students scored more or less somewhere between the high-school students and the adult musicians on a vast majority of measured traits, which suggests the existence of specific developmental line of the differential traits, alongside the age, experience and musicianship growth.
Keywords
age; individual differences; musicians; musicianship; personality traits
Hrčak ID:
201200
URI
Publication date:
27.12.2017.
Visits: 1.039 *