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Mothers as Home DJs: Recorded Music and Young Children’s Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt our lives in unimagined ways, families are reinventing daily rituals, and this is likely true for musical rituals. This study explored how parents with young children used recorded music in their everyday lives during the pandemic. Mothers (N = 19) of ch...

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Autores principales: Cho, Eun, Ilari, Beatriz Senoi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8134524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34025509
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.637569
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description As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt our lives in unimagined ways, families are reinventing daily rituals, and this is likely true for musical rituals. This study explored how parents with young children used recorded music in their everyday lives during the pandemic. Mothers (N = 19) of child(ren) aged 18 months to 5 years living in the United States played the role of home DJ over a period of one week by strategically crafting the sonic home environment, based on resources provided by the authors, in response to their children’s mood and state. Using a newly developed data collection tool, inspired by the Experience Sampling Method, a total of 197 episodes were collected about children’s engagement with recorded music. Findings showed that while mothers utilized music to fulfill various emotional needs, they tended to use it to maintain or reinforce their child’s positive mood rather than to improve a negative mood. Also, mothers’ reports suggested various ways that young children engaged with music, being aligned with the multimodal nature of their musical experiences. Lastly, mothers reported that their strategic approaches to use recorded music seemed to help their children feel less distressed and happier, and this, in turn, aided in the reduction of some of the burdens associated with parenting.
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spelling pubmed-81345242021-05-21 Mothers as Home DJs: Recorded Music and Young Children’s Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic Cho, Eun Ilari, Beatriz Senoi Front Psychol Psychology As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt our lives in unimagined ways, families are reinventing daily rituals, and this is likely true for musical rituals. This study explored how parents with young children used recorded music in their everyday lives during the pandemic. Mothers (N = 19) of child(ren) aged 18 months to 5 years living in the United States played the role of home DJ over a period of one week by strategically crafting the sonic home environment, based on resources provided by the authors, in response to their children’s mood and state. Using a newly developed data collection tool, inspired by the Experience Sampling Method, a total of 197 episodes were collected about children’s engagement with recorded music. Findings showed that while mothers utilized music to fulfill various emotional needs, they tended to use it to maintain or reinforce their child’s positive mood rather than to improve a negative mood. Also, mothers’ reports suggested various ways that young children engaged with music, being aligned with the multimodal nature of their musical experiences. Lastly, mothers reported that their strategic approaches to use recorded music seemed to help their children feel less distressed and happier, and this, in turn, aided in the reduction of some of the burdens associated with parenting. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8134524/ /pubmed/34025509 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.637569 Text en Copyright © 2021 Cho and Ilari. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Mothers as Home DJs: Recorded Music and Young Children’s Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full Mothers as Home DJs: Recorded Music and Young Children’s Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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title_full_unstemmed Mothers as Home DJs: Recorded Music and Young Children’s Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short Mothers as Home DJs: Recorded Music and Young Children’s Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort mothers as home djs: recorded music and young children’s well-being during the covid-19 pandemic
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8134524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34025509
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.637569
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