The Effectiveness of Instrumental and Relaxing Music on Spiritual Health in Teenagers

Authors

• Seyyed Ebrahim Hosseini ¹
• Soheila Karimi ²
• Ghasem Naziry ³
• Seyydeh Sedigheh Shojaee ⁴

¹ Ph.D Associate professor biology and, psychology, shiraz branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran of Islamic Azad University, shiraz branch

² M.A. degree of psychology, shiraz branch, Islamic Azad University

³ Assistant professor, psychology, shiraz branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

⁴ M.A. degree of psychology, Islamic Azad University, Arsenjan branch, Iran

Abstract

The goal of present study is to determine the effect of instrumental and relaxing music on spiritual health of teenage girls. This research is a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest theme and a control group. The statistical community included all High school girl students in Shiraz city. A high school was selected by available sampling. 30 students were randomly divided into two groups of control and experimental (each contained 15 persons). Passive music therapies for the subjects were held during 8 sessions for 30 minutes to form a kind of listening of relaxing and nonverbal songs. Before and after music therapy intervention the spiritual health of teenage girls was measured with using spiritual health questionnaire (Palutzian and Ellison). The results of covariance analysis showed an effective increase in the spiritual health of teenage girls. However, the result of the study indicated that the relaxing and nonverbal music would increase the teenage girls ' spiritual health significantly and effectively.  

Keywords

• Spiritual health
• Teenagers
• Instrumental and relaxing music

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