The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between music preferences of different mode and tempo and personality traits. The survey included 323 students who had to fill out the following tests: questionnaire of music preferences, scale of optimism and pessimism and International Personality Item Pool for measuring Big Five personality traits. Results showed that female in comparison to male students reported a higher degree of music preferences, regardless of tempo and mode, while the male and female showed a higher degree of preference for musical fragments in the fast tempo and major key. Results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that emotional stability and optimism were significant predictors of preferences for music in fast tempo and major key, while openness to experiences, introversion and gender were significant predictors of preferences for the slow tempo and music in minor key. The authors suggest the importance of applying these results in creating the curriculum of music teaching. IntroductionMusical preferences are the simplest form of affective response to music, and the result of many factors. There are several theoretical efforts defining musical preferences that have provoked great research interest. LeBlanc's model of musical preferences (LeBlanc 1982) is an interactive and hierarchical model, which assumes several levels of interactive factors that affect individual's musical preferences. Model includes variables which are related to musical and cultural characteristics (friends, family, teachers), and some of them are related to the listener (gender, personality traits, musical abilities, etc.). The characteristics of the listener filter input variables and then the listener decides whether they like certain music or not.According to the theory of music preferences (Rentfrow and Gosling 2003), personality traits, cognitive abilities and self-concept are three important factors involved in creating the musical preferences of the individual. Trying to identify the underlying patterns of listening, Rentfrow and Gosling (2003) singled out, by means of factor analysis of the data on the degree of liking different music examples, four dimensions of musical preference: a reflective-complex (blues, jazz, classical and folk music), intense-rebellious (rock, alternative, heavy metal music),

The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between musical and visual art preferences, and the role of personality traits in predicting preferences for different musical styles and visual art motives. Participants were asked to fill out the following instruments: Questionnaire of music preferences, Questionnaire of visual art preferences, Questionnaire for personality traits International Personality Item Pool [IPIP]; the Arnett Inventory of Sensation Seeking. Results showed that most participants preferred popular and classical music, and landscape motives, while they showed the lowest preferences for heavy metal music and paintings that represented motives of violence and cultures of the world. With regard to the relationship between music and visual art preferences, classical music preferences were positively related to preferences for all visual art motives, while preferences for jazz and world music were positively related to visual art preferences of all motives except religious. Heavy metal music preferences were related to preferences for all motives except landscapes, and popular music preferences were positively associated with religious motives and landscapes. The results of this study suggest a relatively modest contribution of personality traits in explaining music and visual art preferences, although traits for intellect, sensation seeking, and agreeableness were shown to be significant predictors in many instances.

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S n j e ž a n a D o b r o t a 1 a n d I n a R e ić E r c e g o v a c 2 1 Teslina 12, 21000 Split, Croatia 2 Put iza nove bolnice 10c, 21000 Split, Croatia dobrota@ffst.hr, inareic@ffst.hrThe aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between music preference and music education, informal influences (attending classical music concerts and musical theatre productions) and familiarity of music. The research included students of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split (N = 341) 1 . The results showed that participants usually listen to popular music in their leisure time and that popular music is their most preferred music style. A positive relationship between familiarity and preferences was found but this effect was not unambiguous. A relationship between music preferences and secondary school music education was not found, but those participants who attended music school preferred some music styles more than did those participants who did not attend music school. There was a significant correlation found between the frequency of attending classical music concerts and preferences for classical music, jazz and world music. Finally, the results indicated that people who frequently attend musical theatre productions have significantly higher preferences for jazz and world music. The authors pointed to the problem of unattractiveness of music lessons in secondary schools and suggest possible solutions to the problem.

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U radu je istražen utjecaj dobi/godine studija studenata na njihove stavove prema djeci izbjeglicama, na interkulturalne stavove i na preferencije glazbi svijeta te je ispitana povezanost između stavova prema djeci izbjeglicama, interkulturalnih stavova i preferencija glazbi svijeta. U okviru istraživanja primijenjen je upitnik općih podataka, Skala stavova prema djeci izbjeglicama (Attitude Questionnaire toward Refugee Children – AQReC), Upitnik interkulturalnih stavova (Munroe Multicultural Attitude Scale Questionnaire – MASQUE) te skala procjene za ispitivanje preferencija glazbenih ulomaka na uzorku od 259 studenata Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Splitu. Rezultati ne potvrđuju utjecaj dobi/godine studija na stavove studenata prema djeci izbjeglicama ni na njihove interkulturalne stavove. Potvrđen je utjecaj dobi/godine studija na preferencije glazbi svijeta, pri čemu studenti viših godina studija pokazuju veće preferencije takve glazbe. I, konačno, rezultati potvrđuju da studenti koji imaju pozitivnije stavove prema djeci izbjeglicama, imaju i pozitivnije interkulturalne stavove i veće preferencije glazbi svijeta. Autorica ističe važnost interkulturalnog glazbenog obrazovanja za formiranje studentskih interkulturalnih stavova te njihovih stavova prema djeci izbjeglicama.

The aim of this study was to explore the differences in musical preferences between Slovene and Croatian students. The sample consisted of 369 students from Slovenia and 371 students from Croatia. The results show that there are significant differences in musical preferences between Slovene and Croatian students. Furthermore, differences with regard to gender, age and study program were confirmed.