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6.5 Findings from the music therapy project questionnaire: comparing results<br />

before and after music therapy<br />

The music therapy project questionnaire consisted of statements put together by the<br />

researcher to investigate the students’ feelings of anger and their attitude towards<br />

school (5.4.1). The students’ possible answers were scored in the same way as the<br />

ones used in the Beck (0 = never, 1 = sometimes, 2 = often and 3 = always) and<br />

added together (appendices 6.5a – 6.5c). However they are not converted into T<br />

scores and are not standardised scores so a shift of change across the scoring system<br />

is used to show how students reported change from before to after music therapy. The<br />

students’ responses to these questions are presented in their school groups and the<br />

statements on school are divided into two because the results of one (I) show<br />

improvement by a negative result and the other (II) by a positive.<br />

6.5.1 Statements on anger: descriptive statistics<br />

The Centre School students’ scores to the statements on anger after music therapy,<br />

and whether they shifted up or down, are shown in figure 6.5.1.1. The minus shifts<br />

show improvement.<br />

Figure 6.5.1.1 The Centre School students: responses to statements on anger<br />

&!<br />

%!<br />

Shift in statements on anger<br />

Centre School<br />

$!<br />

#!<br />

Shift<br />

"!<br />

+!<br />

C"!<br />

C#!<br />

C$!<br />

Individual students<br />

I get cross with people<br />

I think people are trying to control me<br />

I get angry<br />

! "&(!

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