Analysis of the Relationship Among Creativity and Other Variables in Judging Musical Creation Results of Elementary School Students

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze the correlation between creativity and aesthetical appeal, technical goodness, empathy, likeness, and mood variables in elementary school students judgment of musical creation results. A total of 201 students from 5th grade elementary school in Daejeon participated in the research. The results of 6 music composition were evaluated by 6 variables. 5 items except the mood were responded with the Likert scale and the mood item responded with free descriptions. As a result of research, it was found that the mood categories and means of each variables were differed by the musical characteristics of the music composition products. And there was a significant correlation between each variables on the whole(p < .01 ～ p < .001). Through this study, it could be said that the musical features of musical creations influenced thoughts and feelings of judges, and that the cognitive and emotional factors about muscial creations are related to each other and affect the evaluation in a complex way.