PENGARUH MUSIK DENGAN TEMPO CEPAT & LAMBAT TERHADAP ATENSI MAHASISWA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25170/manasa.v8i2.1957Keywords:
Attention, fast tempo music, slow tempo music, undergraduate studentAbstract
This study aims to investigate the effect of listening to music with fast and slow tempo on
undergraduate student’s attention. Music is used to accompany students in carrying out activities
in daily life. The results of previous studies have shown that music can be a distraction when they
were doing their work, but other studies have shown that music has no effect on attention. Attention
is the first stage in the cognitive process, which is the starting point for a person’s cognitive
proesses to finally create a memory. In this study, an experiment with within-subject design was
carried out by listening to music with a different tempo when doing an attention test. Fourteen
undergraduate students aged 21-23 years were involved in this study by completing 3 forms of
Concentration Grid Test in 3 different conditions, namely while listening to instrumental pop
music with fast tempo, slow tempo, and in a silence. The results of repeated measures ANOVA
showed that there was an effect of tempo on students’ attention with F(2.26) = 6.84, p<0.05. The
results of the contrast analysis showed that participants who listened to instrumental pop music
with a slow tempo had a significantly higher score that fast tempo (t = 3.433, p<0.01) and control
(t = 2.908, p<0.01), but fast tempo instrumental pop music has no significant difference with
control (t = 0.525, p = 0.604). Thus, slow tempo music can increase the attention, but instrumental
pop music with fast tempo does not distract the students.
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