Citation

Wu CC, Shih YN. Int. J. Occup. Safety Ergonomics 2019; ePub(ePub): 1-5.

Affiliation

Department of Occupational Therapy , Fu Jen Catholic University , Taiwan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10803548.2018.1558854

PMID

30758255

Abstract

For occupational safety and ergonomics, the relationship between work attention performance and background music is a trend for the future. Attention performance may be influenced by some personal factors, such as experience of music training. This investigation explores the difference between the attention performance of musicians and that of non-musicians based on a quasi-experimental design to gain a preliminary understanding of the possible effect of background music on the attention performance of both groups. This study found that a musician's attention performance is better than a non-musician's and that background music tends to improve the attention performance of both musicians and non-musicians, but to a greater extent for musicians.

Language: en

Keywords

attention; background music; music training