Varied Musical Experiences and Openness of University Students in Turkey and the United States

Mustafa Hilmi Bulut, Chi-Keung Victor Fung, Lisa J. Lehmberg, Yeliz Kindap Tepe, Patrick Hernly, Yusuf Özgül, Esmira Mehdiyev and Zekeriya Kaptan

SAGE Open, 2022, vol. 12, issue 4, 21582440221139468

Abstract: The personality trait of openness has been shown to contribute to a person’s ability to function effectively. Additionally, scholars have suggested that openness to experience and foreign language experience were related to music preference. Extending from earlier scholarship, this study examined the relationship between openness to experience and the various types of musical and language experiences reported by undergraduate music majors in Turkey and the United States. Participants ( N  = 380) were surveyed using the Openness to Experience domain of the NEO-PI-R and an author-designed survey with questions about participants’ musical backgrounds and interests, foreign language abilities, age, and sex. Results showed that U.S. students rated significantly higher in four of the five dimensions of the Openness domain than their Turkish counterparts (Wilks’λ = .57; F (5, 374) = 55.37, p  

Keywords: area studies; humanities; foreign languages; language studies; music; arts & humanities; curriculum; education; social sciences; international education; higher education; educational psychology; applied psychology; psychology; social psychology; experimental psychology; personality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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