Stressors and psychological distress: Music listening as a coping strategy for pre-service kindergarten teachers

Stressors and psychological distress: Music listening as a coping strategy for pre-service kindergarten teachers

• Kong, Siu Hang Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education
• Wong, Wik Ki Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education

International Journal of Music Education, (0), , 2021

SAGE Publications

2021

• B Human Behaviour
  • BD Mental Health

Mental Health Music Listening Pressure Stress Teacher Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

Against the backdrop of the worldwide spread of COVID-19, this study aims to validate a model for coping with psychological distress and examine the effect of music listening, as a coping strategy, in moderating and lessening the effects of stressors on psychological distress. Based on 198 returned questionnaires from preservice kindergarten teachers, this study suggests students experienced such common mental health issues as stress, anxiety and depression due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Time pressures, general social mistreatment, academic alienation and developmental challenges were significant stressors predicting students' anxiety. Music listening played a prominent moderating role on the relationship between stressors and psychological wellbeing mental health/psychological distress. However, music with lyrics with a positive meaning may lessen the moderating effect of musical elements. This study suggests that music listening has a prominent moderating effect on health/psychological distress, while the implicit or explicit musical meaning of the music perceived by the audience determines its moderating effect. Copyright ©2021 SAGE Publications.

• English

Journal Articles

• 02557614

• 10.1177/02557614211050986

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2022-05-12