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THE USE OF PICTORIAL STIMULI TO COMPARE THE MOOD RESPONSES TO MUSIC OF EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED AND NORMAL CHILDREN

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Zimmerman, Betsy Diane
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122 pages
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Pennsylvania State University
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The purpose of this study was to compare the mood responses to music of emotionally disturbed and normal children through the use of pictorial stimuli. Subjects were forty-two children (17 socially and emotionally disturbed, 10 autistic, and 15 normal) ranging in age from 7-13 years. Four basic moods were chosen for investigation: happy, sad, mysterious, and devotional. Black-and-white photographs portraying these specific moods were created for use as a non-verbal measure of mood responses.
A tape of 32 musical excerpts (8 representing each mood) was made and presented to the subjects with the instructions to point to the picture which "looks like the music sounds". Responses of the three groups of children were compared using three-way ANOVA to provide answers to the following questions: (1) Is there a difference between the mood responses to music of emotionally disturbed children and those of normal children? (2) Do the varying degrees of emotional handicaps existing within the group of emotionally disturbed children (autistic vs. socially and emotionally disturbed) have an effect on their mood responses to music? (3) Do the age differences among the children have an effect on their mood responses to music? (4) Do the mood responses of the groups vary for music expressing different moods?
The characteristic of perseveration common to most autistic children made it necessary to incorporate a special prompting procedure in order to obtain a truer measure of mood responses. When prompted mood responses to music of emotionally disturbed children were compared with their normal counterparts, no significant differences were found except in the "happy" mood category. This finding supplements that part of the definition of emotionally disturbed children which describes them as possessing a general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression. Age was not found to be a significant main effect.
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D.ED. The Pennsylvania State University 1983.
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-01, Section: A, page: 1010.
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Dissertation Abstracts International
44-01A
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