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Phasin Team Ngamthanaphaisarn

Mr. Abel Cadias

English 10 / 04

June 5, 2019

The Relationship of Listening to Music to Students’ Social skill

Music has been around the world for a long time. Every place in the world uses music

in various purposes such as education and communication. According to Thomas (2016), the

famous music director in San Francisco Symphony, music help students to study easier

because it affects their brain through the style of the song that listens such as jazz song and

classical song that help relaxes the mood. In general, Beethoven’s, the famous pianist, also

used mathematics in his music relevant to geometric diagrams that seem hard to understand.

Nevertheless, what is the association between listening music and students social skill? Some

students think that music is for entertainment but it has a huge role in the social environment

that students should adapt and use it.

The purpose of this research is to find out the relationship between music listening and

social skills of the students by using consolidated data. The importance of the data is to

encourage students to have a better social in the school. The author uses three different

academic article to relate the relation and effect of music and social.

The author got the data from one report and used the data to interpret and create the

graph. The question made by the author asked what is the relation of listening to music with

social skill. The choices that the author categorized are divided into four reasons which are

self-confidences in social, entertainment, social emotion and escapism. The figure below

illustrates that most of students listen to music because of their entertainment with friends
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followed by social emotion which have 48 students and 44 students respectively. Coming up

with self-confidence with 16 students and escapism with 12 students. From the result, students

usually choose music as a entertainment sources because it helps to reduce the amount of stress

that students obtain during the day. Music can also represent as escapist but not much people

choose it because it is the way to seek something that all student does not even know the result.

It’s just running away from something.

All students in the world have lots of responsibility to do and sometime cause a

depression. It is a prevalent problem in colleges across the country by students’ experience

such as new lifestyle, friends, and especially the society (Riba 2019). The best ways to avoid

this can be related to the music by entertaining. Music can engage the students to involve into

the song by an activity like dancing and sport. Refer to Koelsch (2015), the music psychologist

at the Freie University Berlin, describes that music impacts our skill to connect with one

another easier by the mechanisms of the brain circuits. Hence, every school should encourage

to use music as the factor of the social development through the entertaining process such as

aerobic training or dancing class. As a result, all students will be well-behaved and have a

good relationship in the society.

Figure 1 : relationship of listening to music to social skill

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This research report can summarize that entertainment in music relationship efficiency

affects social skills. However, there are some students who escape or run away from the

problem. Hence, the styles of song and situation are other factors that everyone should follow

and adapt to use in order to have a high quality of social skills. If students use music in wrong

situations, it will affect their social skill.

References

Koelsch, S.(2013). Four Ways Music Strengthens Social Bonds. Retrieved May 27, 2019

From https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/four_ways_music_strengthens_so

cial_ bonds

Riba, E.(2019, March 16). Depression Among College Students. Retrieved May 27, 2019

from https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog

posts/consumer/depression-a mong-college-student

Thomas, M. (2016, April 1). The Math Behind Beethoven’s Music. Retrieved May 24,

2019 from http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/the-math-behind-beethovens-

music.html