Identity and practice: The motivational benefits of a long-term musical identity. Evans, P. & Mcpherson, G., E. Psychology of Music, 2014. abstract bibtex This article reports on a 10-year longitudinal study of children’s musical identity, their instrumental practice, and subsequent achievement and motivation for playing music. Before commencing learning on their instrument, participants (N = 157) responded to questions relating to how long they thought they would continue playing their instrument. Once learning commenced, practice was measured using the parents’ estimates each year for the first 3 years of learning, and performance was measured using a standardized test. Ten years later, the participants were asked how long they had sustained music learning along with other questions related to their musical development. Those who expressed both a personal long-term view of playing an instrument before they began instruction, and who sustained high amounts of practice in the first 3 years, demonstrated higher achievement and a longer length of time spent in music learning compared to those with a short- term view and low levels of practice. Results suggest that while practice and self-regulation strategies are important, learners who possess a sense of where their future learning might take them and whose personal identity includes a long-term perspective of themselves as a musicians are better positioned to succeed and sustain with their instrumental learning.
@article{
title = {Identity and practice: The motivational benefits of a long-term musical identity},
type = {article},
year = {2014},
identifiers = {[object Object]},
pages = {1-16},
websites = {http://pom.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/0305735613514471},
id = {cb4bb772-54a4-3641-a911-7581df618a8d},
created = {2015-10-12T18:17:07.000Z},
file_attached = {false},
profile_id = {67edaefc-f885-37e4-bc00-882f4d80d81f},
group_id = {0838b8f1-9c9e-3c79-8522-3879cfb89b62},
last_modified = {2015-10-12T18:17:07.000Z},
tags = {motivación,papers},
read = {false},
starred = {false},
authored = {false},
confirmed = {true},
hidden = {false},
abstract = {This article reports on a 10-year longitudinal study of children’s musical identity, their instrumental practice, and subsequent achievement and motivation for playing music. Before commencing learning on their instrument, participants (N = 157) responded to questions relating to how long they thought they would continue playing their instrument. Once learning commenced, practice was measured using the parents’ estimates each year for the first 3 years of learning, and performance was measured using a standardized test. Ten years later, the participants were asked how long they had sustained music learning along with other questions related to their musical development. Those who expressed both a personal long-term view of playing an instrument before they began instruction, and who sustained high amounts of practice in the first 3 years, demonstrated higher achievement and a longer length of time spent in music learning compared to those with a short- term view and low levels of practice. Results suggest that while practice and self-regulation strategies are important, learners who possess a sense of where their future learning might take them and whose personal identity includes a long-term perspective of themselves as a musicians are better positioned to succeed and sustain with their instrumental learning.},
bibtype = {article},
author = {Evans, P. and Mcpherson, Gary E.},
journal = {Psychology of Music},
number = {August 2015}
}
Downloads: 0
{"_id":"DLFvMnKY5FNW4JHNj","bibbaseid":"evans-mcpherson-identityandpracticethemotivationalbenefitsofalongtermmusicalidentity-2014","downloads":0,"creationDate":"2015-10-12T18:18:58.301Z","title":"Identity and practice: The motivational benefits of a long-term musical identity","author_short":["Evans, P.","Mcpherson, G., E."],"year":2014,"bibtype":"article","biburl":null,"bibdata":{"title":"Identity and practice: The motivational benefits of a long-term musical identity","type":"article","year":"2014","identifiers":"[object Object]","pages":"1-16","websites":"http://pom.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/0305735613514471","id":"cb4bb772-54a4-3641-a911-7581df618a8d","created":"2015-10-12T18:17:07.000Z","file_attached":false,"profile_id":"67edaefc-f885-37e4-bc00-882f4d80d81f","group_id":"0838b8f1-9c9e-3c79-8522-3879cfb89b62","last_modified":"2015-10-12T18:17:07.000Z","tags":"motivación,papers","read":false,"starred":false,"authored":false,"confirmed":"true","hidden":false,"abstract":"This article reports on a 10-year longitudinal study of children’s musical identity, their instrumental practice, and subsequent achievement and motivation for playing music. Before commencing learning on their instrument, participants (N = 157) responded to questions relating to how long they thought they would continue playing their instrument. Once learning commenced, practice was measured using the parents’ estimates each year for the first 3 years of learning, and performance was measured using a standardized test. Ten years later, the participants were asked how long they had sustained music learning along with other questions related to their musical development. Those who expressed both a personal long-term view of playing an instrument before they began instruction, and who sustained high amounts of practice in the first 3 years, demonstrated higher achievement and a longer length of time spent in music learning compared to those with a short- term view and low levels of practice. Results suggest that while practice and self-regulation strategies are important, learners who possess a sense of where their future learning might take them and whose personal identity includes a long-term perspective of themselves as a musicians are better positioned to succeed and sustain with their instrumental learning.","bibtype":"article","author":"Evans, P. and Mcpherson, Gary E.","journal":"Psychology of Music","number":"August 2015","bibtex":"@article{\n title = {Identity and practice: The motivational benefits of a long-term musical identity},\n type = {article},\n year = {2014},\n identifiers = {[object Object]},\n pages = {1-16},\n websites = {http://pom.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/0305735613514471},\n id = {cb4bb772-54a4-3641-a911-7581df618a8d},\n created = {2015-10-12T18:17:07.000Z},\n file_attached = {false},\n profile_id = {67edaefc-f885-37e4-bc00-882f4d80d81f},\n group_id = {0838b8f1-9c9e-3c79-8522-3879cfb89b62},\n last_modified = {2015-10-12T18:17:07.000Z},\n tags = {motivación,papers},\n read = {false},\n starred = {false},\n authored = {false},\n confirmed = {true},\n hidden = {false},\n abstract = {This article reports on a 10-year longitudinal study of children’s musical identity, their instrumental practice, and subsequent achievement and motivation for playing music. Before commencing learning on their instrument, participants (N = 157) responded to questions relating to how long they thought they would continue playing their instrument. Once learning commenced, practice was measured using the parents’ estimates each year for the first 3 years of learning, and performance was measured using a standardized test. Ten years later, the participants were asked how long they had sustained music learning along with other questions related to their musical development. Those who expressed both a personal long-term view of playing an instrument before they began instruction, and who sustained high amounts of practice in the first 3 years, demonstrated higher achievement and a longer length of time spent in music learning compared to those with a short- term view and low levels of practice. Results suggest that while practice and self-regulation strategies are important, learners who possess a sense of where their future learning might take them and whose personal identity includes a long-term perspective of themselves as a musicians are better positioned to succeed and sustain with their instrumental learning.},\n bibtype = {article},\n author = {Evans, P. and Mcpherson, Gary E.},\n journal = {Psychology of Music},\n number = {August 2015}\n}","author_short":["Evans, P.","Mcpherson, G., E."],"bibbaseid":"evans-mcpherson-identityandpracticethemotivationalbenefitsofalongtermmusicalidentity-2014","role":"author","urls":{},"downloads":0},"search_terms":["identity","practice","motivational","benefits","long","term","musical","identity","evans","mcpherson"],"keywords":[],"authorIDs":[]}