Music as the Means to Stimulate Novelty and Challenge Seeking in Persons with Intellectual Disability | Zendy

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Music as the Means to Stimulate Novelty and Challenge Seeking in Persons with Intellectual Disability

Author(s) -

Amanallah Soltani,

Samsilah Roslan,

Maria Chong Abdullah,

Chan Cheong Jan

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

disability cbr and inclusive development

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2211-5242

DOI - 10.5463/dcid.v23i4.164

Subject(s) - novelty , intellectual disability , field (mathematics) , psychology , inclusion (mineral) , public relations , knowledge management , medical education , engineering ethics , political science , medicine , computer science , social psychology , psychiatry , engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics

Purpose: The main aim of the study was to determine whether challenge seeking behaviour could be increased by stimulating persons with intellectual disability with music. The intention was also to evaluate whether the participants would attempt to seek challenges when they felt bored with a music experience.

Method: Thirty adolescents and young adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability were randomly selected to take part in a repeated-measure experimental design, under three different conditions. In the first condition, the participants were provided adequate challenges through teaching fundamental musical skills. In the second condition, no optimal challenge was provided, and in the third condition, using special strategies, the participants were stimulated to look for novelty and challenge through involvement in creative musical tasks. Level of innovation, as an index of challenge seeking, was measured during the 8 minutes of free choice interval at the end of each condition.

Results: Using Friedman’s ANOVA and Wilcoxon signed-rank test, the findings showed that the low and statistically similar levels of challenge seeking behaviour in conditions 1 and 2 significantly increased to a high level in condition 3. It confirmed that participants with intellectual disability are capable of demonstrating challenge seeking behaviour if they are stimulated to do so. The results also confirmed that the tendency to demonstrate challenge seeking behaviour during a boring musical situation was low.

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