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Predictors Of Musical Performance: Personality, Performance Anxiety, And Flow, Whitney Jean Statham
Predictors Of Musical Performance: Personality, Performance Anxiety, And Flow, Whitney Jean Statham
Doctoral Dissertations
There is evidence to suggest that many university schools of music struggle with student retention. In many music programs, a significant factor in students being able to matriculate in their areas of study is based on quality of performance under “high-stakes” or high-pressure performances in the form of jury performances. The importance placed on these jury performances makes the ability to predict a student’s success in this area highly valuable to students and music educators. Using the Big Five Model of personality, and a measure of narrow personality traits, this study used a stepwise multiple regression to examine the relationship …