Music Advocacy Facts
A study of forty-five 8- to 19-year-old "at-risk" males found that, when the students were given guitar lessons and performance opportunities, they increased their self-esteem and musical self-efficacy scores significantly. Students in the other test groups did not increase their scores.
From: "The Effects of Musical Performance, Rational Emotive Therapy and Vicarious Experience on the Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem of Juvenile Delinquents and Disadvantaged Children," Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Music and Dance, University o
Available here: The Arts Education Partnership - Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development
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