Health-promoting behaviours in conservatoire students

Abstract

This study focuses on health-promoting behaviours in students from two conservatoires, the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM, Manchester, UK; n =199) and the Royal College of Music (RCM, London, UK; n = 74). The research questions concern (a) the levels and types of health-promoting behaviours among performance students and (b) the association of health-promoting behaviours with emotional state, perceived general self-regulation and self-efficacy. To address these questions, the students were surveyed using server-based inventories over the internet. Results revealed varying levels of adherence to individual aspects of health-promoting behaviours. No significant differences between the populations of the two conservatoires with respect to health-promoting behaviours were observed. In general, values for health responsibility, physical activity and stress management were lower than values for nutrition, interpersonal relations and spiritual growth. Significant correlations were found between all subscales of health-promoting behaviours, emotional state, self-efficacy and self-regulation. These results suggest that music performance students tend to focus more strongly on psychosocial than physical aspects of health while particularly neglecting health responsibility. It is also concluded that health-promoting behaviours are weakly and differentially associated with both positive and negative emotional states, as well as with perceived self-efficacy and self-regulation.

Health-promoting behaviors in South African music students: A replication study

“…This finding is similar to that observed in Kreutz et al (2008Kreutz et al ( , 2009). Furthermore, health responsibility was positively correlated with physical activity and nutrition, which were also correlated with each other.…”

“…Fortunately, South African music students report self-efficacy as the highest scores, similar to other studies that have found self-efficacy as among the most important predictors of university students' health-promoting behaviors (Hong et al, 2007;Kim, 2006;Kreutz et al, 2009;Von Ah et al, 2004). Most notably, the findings of this study support the assumption that music students' healthy behaviors are similar across different socio-cultural contexts.…”

“…Since this study is a replication of Kreutz et al (2009), we compiled a table (Table 4) of means to compare our findings, in as far as possible, to their findings. Table 4 that very similar trends are evident.…”

Health Promoting Lifestyle Behaviour in Medical Students: a Multicentre Study from Turkey

“…In those studies (Walker et al, 1988;Unalan et al, 2007;Al Kandari et al, 2008;Kreutz et al, 2009;Ay et al, 2012), it is found that consciousness of health increases with age. The reason we found contradicting results with this study may be associated with the stress and responsibilities of the medical students with rising ages.…”

Estudio comparativo de métodos de aprendizaje de violonchelo utilizados en conservatorios de música españoles. Implicaciones para el profesorado

“…A pesar de esto, estudios como el de Rickert, Barrett y Ackermann (2015) ponen de manifiesto la importancia de una buena concienciación corporal y hábitos de estudio saludables en el alumnado de cualquier edad, en previsión de posteriores lesiones. Además, si se produce una concienciación física y psicológica adecuada desde el comienzo del aprendizaje, es probable que el alumnado que continúa con estudios superiores sea capaz de una mejor autorregulación emocional y física (Kreutz, Ginsborg, & Williamon, 2009). En el caso concreto de los métodos analizados en esta investigación, esta responsabilidad está completamente delegada al profesorado, el cual ha de asumir cómo incorporar y crear hábitos saludables en la educación musical instrumental del alumnado novel (Rickert et al, 2015).…”