INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES,
ENGINEERING & PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

Ms. Nancy David,Mr. Eben Varughese & Dr.Rinju George

CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India

Music is known to have a smoothening effect to all. The aim of the present experimental study is to find the effect of music on the psychological wellbeing of emerging adults. Participants of the study consisted of sixty two emerging adults (42 females and 20 males), between 18-25 years, studying in different colleges of Bangalore, India. Data was collected after dividing participants randomly into two equal groups (experimental and control). Both groups were first administered Ryff’s wellbeing questionnaire to know participants level of wellbeing prior to experimental condition. Experimental group were tested thrice, that is during the pre-intervention period, after listening to sad songs and post-intervention period- after listening to happy songs. The control group were tested twice, that is during the pre-intervention period and post-intervention period. The intervention programme was scheduled for a duration of four weeks. Results of independent sample t-test computed indicated that there is no significant difference between control group and experimental group on psychological wellbeing during pre and post-intervention period. Results of repeated measures of ANOVA computed for experimental group found that exposure to music (sad and happy songs) is not creating any significant change in the psychological well-being of emerging adults. The study implies that music intervention sessions provided for short duration do not bring significant change in psychological wellbeing of emerging adults and hence for music to create a significant impact intervention should be provided for a longer period.