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The impact of psychological skills and mindfulness training on the psychological well-beingof undergraduate music students
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/33367 The impact of psychological skills and mindfulness training on the psychological well-beingof undergraduate music students Maree, David J.F. Steyn, Margaretha Helena Psychological skills Undergraduate music students Psychological well-being Psychological benefits Sport Psychology Psychological Skills Training (PST) UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. Extensive research on the psychological benefits of psychological skills training in sport has been conducted in Sport Psychology, with unambiguous positive results. However, psychological skills training has not yet been fully applied in the Psychology of Music. Mindfulness training, and specifically the mindfulness, acceptance and commitment (MAC) approach, has been applied in sport, but thus far no MAC intervention on musicians has been published. The combination of Psychological Skills Training (PST) and mindfulness (the MAC approach) training is more rare and has not yet been used in music studies. The configuration of mindfulness (MAC) and PST has been applied in a sport setting, but has never been tested in a proper intervention programme for music students. This study fills this gap. The primary aim of this research was to implement and evaluate the effect of PST, in combination with mindfulness, on undergraduate music students. The second aim was to determine whether the intervention programme had an impact on the students’ psychological well-being and the management of music performance anxiety. The third aim was to evaluate whether the students’ psychological skills and mindfulness have improved. The fourth aim was to determine whether the combination of PST and mindfulness training was successful. The fifth aim was to evaluate whether the cross-over from Sport Psychology to the Psychology of Music in terms of the knowledge base, intervention PST protocols and psychometric measuring instruments was meaningful. The sixth aim was to determine whether the correlations between the psychological constructs (subscales) of the pre-intervention test measurements on all the respondents were meaningful. A convenience sample of 36 undergraduate music students from the Department of Music at the University of Pretoria was selected. The students were asked to participate voluntarily. The experimental group consisted of 21 students, and the remaining 15 students formed the control group. A quasi-experimental design was implemented in this research to address problems that might occur because of the voluntary selection method employed. Voluntary participation was adopted to ensure that the participants were fully engaged in and committed to this study. The aspects of motivation and commitment were essential prerequisites for this research to be successful, because full commitment and maximum attendance of the intervention sessions were crucial to be able to determine the impact of this intervention programme. The results indicated a significant improvement in positive relationships with others within the experimental group, as measured by Ryff’s Psychological Well-being Scale. Pre- and postintervention test results within the experimental group indicated a statistically significant improvement in all three subscales of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (cognitive state anxiety, somatic state anxiety and self-confidence). A statistically significant improvement on five of the seven subscales of Bull’s Mental Skills Questionnaire (self-confidence, anxiety and worry management, concentration ability, relaxation ability and levels of motivation) were reported, and on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, the subscales of “describe” items and “non-judge” items improved significantly from the pre-intervention test to the postintervention test in the experimental group. Interestingly, the growth mindset within the experimental group also increased significantly, while the fixed mindset decreased significantly. This significant positive increase in the scores of the experimental group might be an indication that the intervention programme had a moderately significant impact on important psychological dimensions of the participating undergraduate music students. gm2014 Psychology unrestricted 2014-02-11T05:14:42Z 2014-02-11T05:14:42Z 2013-09-05 2013 Dissertation Steyn, MH 2013, The impact of psychological skills and mindfulness training on the psychological well-being of undergraduate music students, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33367> E13/9/1070/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33367 en © 2013 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Psychological skills Undergraduate music students Psychological well-being Psychological benefits Sport Psychology Psychological Skills Training (PST) UCTD The impact of psychological skills and mindfulness training on the psychological well-beingof undergraduate music students |
| title | The impact of psychological skills and mindfulness training on the psychological well-beingof undergraduate music students |
| title_full | The impact of psychological skills and mindfulness training on the psychological well-beingof undergraduate music students |
| title_fullStr | The impact of psychological skills and mindfulness training on the psychological well-beingof undergraduate music students |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of psychological skills and mindfulness training on the psychological well-beingof undergraduate music students |
| title_short | The impact of psychological skills and mindfulness training on the psychological well-beingof undergraduate music students |
| title_sort | impact of psychological skills and mindfulness training on the psychological well beingof undergraduate music students |
| topic | Psychological skills Undergraduate music students Psychological well-being Psychological benefits Sport Psychology Psychological Skills Training (PST) UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33367 |