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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Performance Science
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1389681
This article is part of the Research Topic Music Performance Anxiety - Volume II View all 5 articles

Effects of Social Support on Music Performance Anxiety among University Music Students: Chain Mediation of Emotional Intelligence and Self-Efficacy

Provisionally accepted
Zhang Huawei Zhang Huawei 1Hashem Salarzadeh Jenatabadi Hashem Salarzadeh Jenatabadi 2,3*
  • 1 Department of music, Dongchang College, Liaocheng University,252000, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, China, Liaocheng, China
  • 2 University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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    The primary goal of this research is to investigate the relationship between social support and music performance anxiety in the context of social cognitive theory and stimulus-organization-response theory among music university students in China. The study involved both postgraduate and undergraduate students. The suggested framework consisted of three independent variables: parental support, teacher support, and peer support, two mediators: emotional intelligence and self-efficacy, and one de-pendent variable: music performance anxiety. A survey of 483 students was undertaken, and the data was analysed using path analysis and structural equation modelling. The study discovered that all three forms of parental, teacher, and peer support were positively associated to both self-efficacy and emotional intelligence, with postgraduate students experiencing the strongest effects. Furthermore, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence had a negative significant effect on music performance anxiety, with the association being stronger among postgraduate students. Finally, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence emerged as significant mediators of the relationship between social support and music performance anxiety. These results add to our knowledge of the mechanisms by which social support influences music performance anxiety.

    Keywords: music performance anxiety, social cognitive theory, Musical self-efficacy, Emotional Intelligence, social support, Stimulus-Organism-Response theory

    Received: 13 Mar 2024; Accepted: 02 Sep 2024.

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    * Correspondence: Hashem Salarzadeh Jenatabadi, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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