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Predictors of continued playing or singing – from childhood and adolescence to adult years
AIM: Many individuals play an instrument or sing during childhood, but they often stop later in life. This study surveyed adults representative of the Swedish population about musical activities during childhood. METHODS: We asked 3820 adults (65% women) aged from 27 to 54 from the Swedish Twin Regi...
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2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024003/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25495566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apa.12870 |
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author | Theorell, T. Lennartsson, A.‐K. Madison, G. Mosing, M.A. Ullén, F. |
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description | AIM: Many individuals play an instrument or sing during childhood, but they often stop later in life. This study surveyed adults representative of the Swedish population about musical activities during childhood. METHODS: We asked 3820 adults (65% women) aged from 27 to 54 from the Swedish Twin Registry, who took extra music lessons to those provided at school, to fill in a web‐based questionnaire. Factors analysed were the age they started studying music, the instrument they played, kind of teaching, institution and educational content, number of lessons and perceived characteristics of the lessons, the music environment during their childhood years and their preferred music genre. All variables were dichotomised. RESULTS: Factors strongly associated with continued playing or singing were male sex, young starting age, cultural family background, self‐selected instrument, attending music classes and more than once a week, church‐related or private education, pop, rock or classical music, playing by ear and improvisation. CONCLUSION: Several significant predictors determined whether a child continued to sing or play an instrument as an adult and many could be externally influenced, such as starting at a young age, taking music classes more than once a week, improvisation and the type of music they played. |
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spelling | pubmed-50240032016-09-23 Predictors of continued playing or singing – from childhood and adolescence to adult years Theorell, T. Lennartsson, A.‐K. Madison, G. Mosing, M.A. Ullén, F. Acta Paediatr REGULAR ARTICLES AIM: Many individuals play an instrument or sing during childhood, but they often stop later in life. This study surveyed adults representative of the Swedish population about musical activities during childhood. METHODS: We asked 3820 adults (65% women) aged from 27 to 54 from the Swedish Twin Registry, who took extra music lessons to those provided at school, to fill in a web‐based questionnaire. Factors analysed were the age they started studying music, the instrument they played, kind of teaching, institution and educational content, number of lessons and perceived characteristics of the lessons, the music environment during their childhood years and their preferred music genre. All variables were dichotomised. RESULTS: Factors strongly associated with continued playing or singing were male sex, young starting age, cultural family background, self‐selected instrument, attending music classes and more than once a week, church‐related or private education, pop, rock or classical music, playing by ear and improvisation. CONCLUSION: Several significant predictors determined whether a child continued to sing or play an instrument as an adult and many could be externally influenced, such as starting at a young age, taking music classes more than once a week, improvisation and the type of music they played. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015-03 2015-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5024003/ /pubmed/25495566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apa.12870 Text en ©2014 The Authors. Acta Pædiatrica published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation Acta Pædiatrica This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | REGULAR ARTICLES Theorell, T. Lennartsson, A.‐K. Madison, G. Mosing, M.A. Ullén, F. Predictors of continued playing or singing – from childhood and adolescence to adult years |
title | Predictors of continued playing or singing – from childhood and adolescence to adult years |
title_full | Predictors of continued playing or singing – from childhood and adolescence to adult years |
title_fullStr | Predictors of continued playing or singing – from childhood and adolescence to adult years |
title_full_unstemmed | Predictors of continued playing or singing – from childhood and adolescence to adult years |
title_short | Predictors of continued playing or singing – from childhood and adolescence to adult years |
title_sort | predictors of continued playing or singing – from childhood and adolescence to adult years |
topic | REGULAR ARTICLES |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024003/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25495566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apa.12870 |
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