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CHAPTER 6
KEY FINDINGS FROM THE QUANTITATIVE DATA
6.1 Introduction
This chapter presents the results from the study’s quantitative data to help determine
the effects of music therapy on two groups of students who each received 20 sessions
of music therapy. The primary results were provided by changes in the students’
scores from before to after music therapy (change scores), collected from the
students’ responses to three of the Beck Inventories for Youth (Beck). These primary
data are firstly presented as descriptive statistics for each inventory in their school
groups (6.2), then as inferential statistics (6.2.4). Initially it was decided to present the
students’ results by schools because there would be less data on each graph but the
differences in theses two groupings ultimately helped to explain the data more
clearly.
Secondly, the difference in the Beck scores between the two groups of students (A
and B) was compared at the second data collection point, when only one group had
had music therapy. This meant that results between the groups of students, when one
had received music therapy and one had not, could be compared (6.3). Short-term
follow-up data from the Beck were also compared after both groups had had a period
of no music therapy (6.4). The fourth wave of data collection also provided a longterm
follow-up data set for group A and these results are explained in 6.4.4.
The results from the music therapy project questionnaire which looked at students’
feelings of anger and their attitudes to school are shown in 6.5 and finally, the results
from the questionnaires given to teaching staff (6.6) present their views of students’
emotional well-being after music therapy. Other quantitative data, collected from the
school records of incidents and attendance, are also reviewed in this chapter.
Examples of completed questionnaires, by both students and teachers, are included in
the appendices (6.1a - 6.1c) 42 . The students’ scores from all four waves of data
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