Hypothesis:
While completing surveys, I expect
to find that people believe that music is not a cause of teenage depression as
said from teenagers themselves. I expect to see that they all listen to music
on a daily basis for more than one hour at a time. When teenagers listen to
music they use it to block out others while the music puts them in a more
positive mood at the same time. When witnessing their friends listen to music
they will see an improvement in their friends' mood. The music all around can
be used in any situation but would be mainly used to improve the mood of teens
after an argument.
Context:
The
target audience were teenagers since that is what my blog is about. I chose
teenagers since the topic of teenage depression is directly surrounded on
teenagers I wanted to see if they agreed. From the survey I discovered that
many teens agree with me when it comes to the fact if music is a main cause for
teenage depression. My results are
reliable and valid because I divided the respondents, since they were all teens
into music groups to see the effects a certain music genre had towards the
thoughts of the respondents. One of my questions that were not very helpful
towards the research was whether they saw a change in their friends emotions or
not. Some said they did not see a change in their friends emotions yet in the
follow up question, said that their friends became happy contradicting their
previous statement. But also, the fact that they said their friends became
happy benefited my research.
Music Genre(27 participants)
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Question 1: Do you listen to music everyday?
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Question 3: How long do you listen to music?
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Rap(6 participants)
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Yes
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The common trend is 3-4 hours.
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R&B(4 participants)
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Yes
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The common trend is 3-4 hours.
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Pop(6 participants)
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Yes
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The trend is from 1 hour to all day.
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Country(4 participants)
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Yes
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1- 2hours is the common trend.
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Rock(8 participants)
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Yes
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The common trend with rock is 3 hours and
longer among the people.
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Metal (3 participants)
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Yes
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The common trend is more than 3 hours.
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Everything (8 participants)
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Yes
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The common trend with everything is 5 hours to
all day.
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Music Genre(25 participants)
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Question 4: Does the music you listen to effect
your mood?
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Question 5: Music is a cause for depression in
teens, (True or False)
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Rap(5 participants)
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The common trend was that it did effect their mood.
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Two said true but the rest said false.
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R&B(4 participants)
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The common trend was that it did effect their
mood.
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Two said true and the rest said false.
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Pop(6 participants)
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The common trend was that it effected their
mood but a small amount said it didn't.
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They all said false.
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Country(4 participants)
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The common trend was that it effected their
mood but a small amount said it didn't.
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Two said true and the rest said false.
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Rock(7 participants)
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The common trend was that it did effect their mood.
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They all said false.
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Metal (3 participants)
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The common trend was that it did effect their
mood.
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They all said false.
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Everything (8 participants)
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The common trend was that it did effect their
mood.
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One said true and the rest said false.
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Music Genre(25 participants)
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Question 6: Do you see a change in your
friends' mood when they listen to music?
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Question 7: What kind of mood do your friends
go into?
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Rap(5 participants)
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They all said they had seen a change.
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All but one said it was used to block people
out.
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R&B(4 participants)
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They all said they had seen a change.
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All but one said it was used to block others
out.
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Pop(6 participants)
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They all said they had seen a change.
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They all said it was used to block people out.
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Country(4 participants)
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Two said they did not see a change in their
friends yet the other two said they did.
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They all said it was used to block people out.
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Rock(7 participants)
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One said they did not see a change in their
friend and the rest said they did.
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All but two said it was used to block people
out.
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Metal (3 participants)
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One said they did not see a change in their
friends and the other two did.
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They all said it was used to block people out.
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Everything (8 participants)
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One said they did not see a change and the
other seven said they did.
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They all said it was used to block people out.
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Question 8: Do you think music is used to block
others out?
Music Genre(27 participants)
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Trends
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Rap(6 participants)
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All but one said it was used to block people
out.
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R&B(4 participants)
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All but one said it was used to block others out.
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Pop(6 participants)
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They all said it was used to block people out.
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Country(4 participants)
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They all said it was used to block people out.
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Rock(8 participants)
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All but two said it was used to block people
out.
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Metal (3 participants)
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They all said it was used to block people out.
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Everything (8 participants)
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They all said it was used to block people out.
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Music Genre(27 participants)
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Question 9: Do you blast music....?
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Question 10: When do you think people would
most likely listen music?
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Rap(6 participants)
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They all said they would listen to it alone and
with others.
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Many said that people listen to music mainly
after an argument, when bored and in the car.
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R&B(4 participants)
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They all said they would listen to it alone and
with others.
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Many said that people listen to music mainly
after an argument, when bored and in the car.
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Pop(6 participants)
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They all said they would listen to it alone and
with others.
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Many said that people listen to music mainly
after an argument, when bored and in the car.
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Country(4 participants)
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They all said they would listen to it alone and
with others.
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Many said that people listen to music mainly
when bored.
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Rock(8 participants)
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Many said the would both blast it alone and
with others.
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Many said that people listen to music mainly
after an argument, when bored and in the car.
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Metal (3 participants)
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One said they like to blast music with others
and two said they would also blast it alone.
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Many said that people listen to music mainly
after an argument, when bored and in the car.
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Everything (8 participants)
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They all said they would blast music with
others and alone except two.
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Many said that people listen to music mainly
after an argument, when bored and in the car.
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Data Analysis
My
first finding was that many teens agreed that music was not a cause of teenage
depression. This is the main point I am trying to make so this is very
beneficial to my research. If twenty two people out of the twenty seven believe
this then if more surveys are filled out this statistic will grow. The teens also said that the music that they
listen to effects their emotions. If the music isn't effecting their music to
make them depressed it is putting them into a more positive mood. Twenty three
people out of twenty seven people feel that music effects their emotions. Only
on person believes that music cause depression between the ton. Yes this is
negative towards my data yet it is still just one person out of twenty
three. Twenty three people in my results
come out to 85%.
Everyone who had taken my survey had said they
listened to music every day for at least an hour. This was very substantial
toward my research since it is surrounded by music. If every single teen that I
surveyed listens to music every day then every survey can contribute towards
the research. 37% of the teenagers surveyed had listened to music for five
hours or more. This is very helpful because this is the biggest percentage out
of the amount of hours that the teens had listened to music. If 1/3 of the
teens can listen to music for up to five hours and stay positive then that
gives me hope when proving point.
81%
of the teens surveyed had said they had seen a change in their friends emotions
while they listened to music. 41% said they had seen their friends mood become
happy, 26% said their friends had became excited, 26% said that it depended on
the music and 7% said sad. This helps my data because out of all they surveyors
67% said that their friends had been brought into a more positive mood. If over
half of the surveyors are going into a definite more positive mood this shows
that they believe music is helpful and not negative towards their friends
also.
89% of the surveyors agreed that music is used to bock
others out. This is helpful to my research because that shows that music is
used to block the outside world out when it is negatively affecting you. Music
is used as an escape, and many of the surveyors agree. They blast music alone
and with friends This helps because this shows that music is positive and they
want to share it with others, but that they also just enjoy it alone, and how
it makes them feel. As shown in the survey 37% of the surveyors believed that
music was mainly used after an argument, but it was also tied with the answer
choice when they are bored. This is helpful because if they believe that music
is mainly used after argument, showing that they use it as an escape from what
went on in the argument. The fact that they also use it when they were bored is
also helpful because that means no matter how some one is feeling they will
resort to music.
Conclusion
My
conclusion from my research is that many people listen to music every day. That
no mater what genre of music that the teens listen to many believed that the
music was still positive outlet. The ones who did not believe music was
positive all the time were also from a variety of genres such as hip hop, pop,
country and also just the ones who listened to all music. I believe the point I
was making was proven since 81% of the surveyors agreed that music was not a
cause in teenage depression. If 4/5ths
of the surveyors agree that is over half and I believe it does support my research.
The only different outcome from what I expected was that some teens were unsure
ho their friends reacted to music, whether it was positive or negative. They
also believed that it depended on the music on how they felt towards the
songs. I can conclude that even though
some teens said it depended on the music 81% still said that they believe music
was not a cause of depression.
Follow Up
With
my secondary research I would continue to separate the surveyors by music genre
but also by age. I feel as if age groups
will show different statistics towards music causing depression. The five
questions that should be researched further are “Does the type of music you
listen to cause depression?”, “Does age effect ho you react to music?”, “How
can not listening to music effect you?” and “Why do people become depressed?
“My research question had stayed the same because I am still proving that music
does not cause depression no matter what genre of music you listen to, but I
had added age in to the future factor. I added age in because adults and children
will most likely react to music differently than teens would and it would be
interesting to see the outcome.
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