THE PERSPECTIVE OF GRADE 10 STUDENTS OF

ARMM REGIONAL SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL

ON LISTENING TO VARIOUS SONGS
IN THEIR STUDY HABIT

PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL

Volume: 15
Pages: 220-223
Document ID: 2023PEMJ1357
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10168569
Manuscript Accepted: 2023-21-11
Psych Educ, 2023, 15(3): 220-223, Document ID:2023 PEMJ1357, doi:10.5281/zenodo.10168569, ISSN 2822-4353
Research Article

The Perspective of Grade 10 Students of ARMM Regional Science High School

on Listening to Various Songs in Their Study Habit
Irich O. Besana*, Alnoury M. Cauring
For affiliations and correspondence, see the last page.
Abstract
Music serves a greater purpose in our lives, especially to the youth and students who listen to music
as their usual practice while studying. This study aimed to explore the views of Grade 10 students of
ARMM Regional Science High School on listening to various songs in the study habit. The
descriptive research design was utilized in this study in which a survey was taken among the 66
Grade 10 students of ARMM Regional Science High School, S.Y. 2021-2022. Based on the result
gathered, while studying, most (38%) of students chose all of the genres of music, and above half of
them or 51.52% regularly listened to songs. There was the same number of students who strongly or
partially believed that listening to songs increased their efficiency in studying. While more students
partially believed that the song affected academic performance. And, most (40.91%) of them did not
believe that listening to the song can understand more the lesson. Yet, a majority (54.55%) of the
students did not believe that listening to songs disturbed their studying. In conclusion, most students
were regular listeners of all genres of music who perceived that songs can increase efficiency in
studying yet they did not believe that listening to songs can help to understand the lesson more.

Keywords: music, various songs, study habit

Introduction most challenging subjects to learn especially in Grade

In the modern era of technology, listening to music
became inseparable for both individuals and
communities especially students who use music while
studying. This trend raises the question of how music
affects one’s concentration and performance during the
study. Music that is soothing and relaxing can help
students to beat stress and anxiety while studying. It
can also aid endurance during long study sessions
(Christ, 2013; Davis, 2015). It is said that music can
help you study while tired and it also moderates
depression (Column, 2019). Moreover, music can
make the heart healthy, elevates mood, reduces stress,
relieves symptoms of depression, stimulates memories,
manages pain, and help people eat less (NorthShore
University Health System, 2020). Taylor (2017) added
that music makes you happier, enhances running
performance, improves health, helps sleep better,
reduces depression, elevates mood while driving,
strengthens learning and memory, and increases verbal
intelligence.
A recent survey estimated that around 60% of students
use music to help with studying. It was also found that
listening to music was the most popular side activity
for teens who juggled studying with another task. This
is because music activates the most diverse networks
of the human brain. Generally, the right music for
homework can elevate both brain power and creativity
(Study International, 2023). More so, science is an
educational discipline that is considered one of the
10 Junior High. There are many reasons why science
high school students find this difficult. One problem is
that science education places a high cognitive and
psychological demand on learners. This makes the
effort involved in learning science much more
significant than other academic subjects (Caduceus
International Publishing, 2022). Hence, this study was
made to investigate the perspectives of 66 Grade 10
students of ARMM Regional Science High School in
listening to various songs while studying.
Literature Review
Music is an arrangement of sounds having melody,
rhythm, and harmony. It is the science or art of
ordering tones or sounds in succession, in
combination, and in temporal relationships to produce
a composition having unity and continuity. It can aid
endurance during long study sessions. In addition,
music has the power to improve our health and well-
being and it produces several positive effects on a
human’s body and brain. It activates both the left and
right brain at the same time which seems to
“selectively activate” neurochemical systems and brain
structures associated with positive mood, emotion,
regulation, attention, and memory in ways that
promote beneficial changes (Christ, 2013).
Stanford study found that music moved the brain to
pay attention. Researchers utilized musical

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Results and Discussion

compositions from the 1800s in their study to find that
music engages the areas of the brain involved with
paying attention, making predictions, and updating the
event in memory. They believed that music choice
was influential in brain processing. The goal of the
study was to look at how the brain sorts out events, but
the research also revealed that musical techniques used
by composers 200 years ago help the brain organize
incoming information (Baker, 2007). One older study
found that listening to music allowed test takers to
complete more questions in the time allotted and get
more answers right. More recent research suggests
that whether or not music improves cognitive function
depends on whether the music first improves a
Figure 1. Percentage result of students who listen to
person’s emotional state. Music is found to help
various songs such as academic songs, k-pop songs,
people perform better in high-pressure situations, such
love songs, religious songs, and rock songs.
as examinations (Christ, 2013).
The figure shows the 5 selected various songs listened
Moreover, the study of Janata (2014) reveals that
to by the Grade 10 students (n=66). There are 38% of
music, memory, and emotions are strongly linked in
students chose all of the genres, whereas 26% of them
which this evidence supports the theory that studying
prefer love songs, 17% of them listen to K-pop songs,
while listening to music is a very beneficial practice.
12 to religious songs, 4% of them listen to academic
Perhaps, one of the most compelling reasons to listen
songs and only 3% of the students prefer to listen to
to music during a study session is because music
rock songs. It proves that the students prefer to listen
proven to help improve cognitive performance.
to random/various genres of music than listening to
Researchers from Florida National University
one particular genre. Songs could help the students to
Marketing Team (2019) reveal that musical activity
concentrate while studying to the extent that they
serves as a cognitive exercise for the brain which
prefer to listen to songs (Kumar, Wajid & Chian,
trains it for more challenges in the future. Therefore,
2016). This is because songs that are soothing and
people who have training early on, specifically before
relaxing are more helpful for students. Moreover,
age seven, have healthier brains and are less likely to
around 60% of students tend to listen to music while
suffer debilitating diseases like Alzheimer’s or
studying. Researchers also found that listening to
Dementia. music was the most popular side activity for teens who
juggled studying with another task (Christ, 2023;
Study International, 2023). Thus, it implies that most
Methodology
students prefer to listen to all genres of music.

The descriptive research design was utilized in this Table 1. Percentage of students’ perception on the
study in which a survey was taken among the 66 Grade influence of listening to various songs on their study
10 students of ARMM Regional Science High School habit.
S.Y. 2021-2022 to determine their opinions on
listening to various songs on their study habits.
Complete enumeration was employed in which the
whole two sections of Grade 10 participated in the
study. The modified survey questionnaire from Kumar
et al (2016) was distributed to be answered by the
participants before the end of the second quarter of
S.Y. 2021-2022. Data were gathered and analyzed
through descriptive analysis.

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Table 1 reveals the 66 students’ perceptions of
listening to various songs on their study habits. Based
on the table above, in the first question (“Do you listen
to songs while studying?”), 51.52% or a majority of
students listen to songs while studying. It means
students prefer to listen to songs while studying.
Listening to music while studying is a common
occurrence among the student population. A recent
survey estimated that around 60% of students use
music to help with studying. Researchers also found
that listening to music was the most popular side
activity for teens who juggled studying with another
task (Study International, 2023). There are 40.59% of
the students do not listen to songs all the time while
they are studying. Some of them only listen when they
are in the right frame of mind. Half of them listen to it
most of the time. Whereas, only 7.58% of students do
not listen to music while studying. While studying,
music can be a great distraction especially the slow,
instrumental music that may lead to a sound sleep
during online classes or study. If the music is too loud,
it could disrupt your thinking process. Music that you
love or hate can affect your ability to concentrate
(Infinity Learn, 2023).
In the second question (“Does the song increases
efficiency in studying?”), both 39.40% of students
strongly and partially believe that listening to songs
increases efficiency in studying whereas only 21.20%
of them don’t believe. More students agreed that
listening to songs increases their efficiency in
studying. Music that is soothing and relaxing can help
students to beat stress and anxiety while studying. It
can also aid endurance during long study sessions
(Davis, 2015). The promise of listening to music can
make you want to learn more. In 2019 study, people
were more motivated to learn when they expected to
listen to a song as their reward (Healthline Media,
2023). Moreover, a recent survey conducted showed
that at the correlation between music and studying and
found that those who listen to music were more likely
to have higher GPAs (Caduceus International
Publishing, 2022).
In the third question (“Does the song affect academic
performance?”), 42.42% of students believe that song
sometimes affects academic performance, 40.91% say
never, and only 16.67% of them say yes. Students
believe that listening to songs affects academic
performance occasionally. Music is found to help
people perform better in high-pressure situations, such
as examinations yet it can be a distraction from
focusing on your study which could disrupt your
thinking process leads to affect your ability to
concentrate (Christ, 2013; Infinity Learn, 2023).
Besana & Cauring
In the fourth question (“Does the song help you to
understand more the lesson?”), 40.91% of students do
not believe that the song helps them to understand the
lesson more, 34.85% of them answered sometimes
while 24.24% say yes. It is said that music can help
you study while tired and it also moderates depression
but sometimes listening to music while studying will
lower your productivity (Column, 2019). Listening to
music with lyrics while completing reading or writing
tasks tends to be less efficient. They may have
absorbed less information. Music with words will
affect your reading comprehension (Infinity Learn,
2023). Thus, most students don’t believe that the song
helps them to understand the lesson more.
In the last question (“Do you think the medium
through which you listen to songs disturbs the
studying?”), a majority (54.55%) of the students do
not believe that listening to songs disturbs their
studying, while 34.85% of them answered sometimes
whereas only 10.60% of them say yes. Songs could
help the students to concentrate while studying to the
extent that they prefer to listen to songs. They could
help the students to concentrate while studying to the
extent that they prefer to listen to songs (Kumar et al.,
2016). A recent study reveals that 60% said they
studied better with sound in the background rather than
in complete silence (Caduceus International
Publishing, 2022). Thus, the majority of students
believe that listening to songs doesn’t disturb their
studying.
Furthermore, the study recommends further study on
the correlation between listening to songs and the
student’s academic performance
Conclusion
The study concludes that most students perceived that
songs can increase efficiency in studying yet they do
not believe that listening to songs can help to
understand the lesson more. But, the majority of them
believe that songs cannot disturb their studying. Also,
most of them are regular listeners of all genres while
studying.
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ARMM Regional Science High School
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