{"title":"Music listening and young children's mood and behavior: The parents as home DJs study.","authors":"Eun Cho, Peter Miksza, Beatriz Ilari","doi":"10.1093/chidev/aacag173","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using an experience sampling method (ESM), this study examined how parents incorporated music listening into daily routines and its perceived effects on children's mood and behavior. Parents (N = 562; 98% mothers; 79% White; 96% affiliated with an early childhood music program) of children aged 0-5 years completed a sign-up survey and a 7-day ESM protocol in 2021. Music listening was ubiquitous in family life, often used for entertainment and emotion regulation. In over 75% of episodes, parents reported noticeable-mostly positive-changes in their children. Mixed-effects models showed stronger effects when children liked the music and it was less familiar as well as when the children were already demonstrating active behavior and the music was more energetic and pleasant.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6000,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Child development","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chidev/aacag173","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Using an experience sampling method (ESM), this study examined how parents incorporated music listening into daily routines and its perceived effects on children's mood and behavior. Parents (N = 562; 98% mothers; 79% White; 96% affiliated with an early childhood music program) of children aged 0-5 years completed a sign-up survey and a 7-day ESM protocol in 2021. Music listening was ubiquitous in family life, often used for entertainment and emotion regulation. In over 75% of episodes, parents reported noticeable-mostly positive-changes in their children. Mixed-effects models showed stronger effects when children liked the music and it was less familiar as well as when the children were already demonstrating active behavior and the music was more energetic and pleasant.
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As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. Spanning many disciplines, the journal provides the latest research, not only for researchers and theoreticians, but also for child psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, specialists in early childhood education, educational psychologists, special education teachers, and other researchers. In addition to six issues per year of Child Development, subscribers to the journal also receive a full subscription to Child Development Perspectives and Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.
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