Does Absolute Music Help Chinese College Students Improve the Study Performance? A Test of Absolute Musical Influence

Abstract

This study investigated the absolute music's short-term effect on Chinese college students' academic performance. One questionnaire contains Chinese college freshmen level Math problems (Estimated time: 40 mins), which were picked from several final review question lists. Based on our two groups (totally 52 persons) of participants' Math learning experiences during the first year of college. One group of students listened to absolute music for 30 minutes before the Math test, another group of students did not listen to absolute music before the Math test. The result of the comparison between two groups revealed differences among two groups. The group with absolute music had a higher average score and used less time than the non-absolute music group. Our findings echoed previous studies on the relationship between absolute music and academic performance, enabling us to better understand the positive study effect of absolute music.