Essay
Relationships among Parental Influences, Selected Demographic Factors, Adolescent Self-Concept as a Future Music Educator, and the Decision to Major in Music Education
Published in No. 187, Winter 2011
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine relationships among parental influences, selected demographic factors, academic achievement, adolescent self-concept as a future music educator, and the decision to major in music education. Subjects (N = 148) were volunteer undergraduate music education students enrolled in North Carolina and Idaho. Each subject completed the PISCAMES survey and data were examined using descriptive analysis, correlational analysis, stepwise multiple regression analysis, and analysis of variance. Parental influences were related to self-concept as a music educator, parental influence on decision to major in music education contributed to the development of self-concept, and increases in self-concept as a future music educator were influenced by differences in parental influence. Specifically, parents' feelings regarding successful completion of education and musical ability necessary to be a successful music educator had significant (p < .001) impact on their son's/daughter's self-concept as a future music educator.
