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CIJP: VOL. 8, NO. 1, JUNE 2023

EFFECTS OF GENDER, MUSIC GENRE AND VOLUME OF MUSIC ON HAND-EYE COORDINATION TASK AMONG PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN NIGERIA: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY.

Submitted
July 4, 2023
Published
2023-07-13

Abstract

The facilitative influence of background music on task performance has been documented in the literature. There have been many variants of manipulated factors to test the phenomenon where there has been equivocality of outcomes/ While genre, gender and volume level of background music have been tested singularly; none has combined all the three together to test their interactive effects so far. Using a 2X 2 X 3 Factorial design, 0ne hundred and forty-four (144) students comprising 78 females and 66 males assigned to 12 groups of various combinations of the independent variables of genre, gender and volume of music participated in eye-hand coordination test, using O’Connor finger dexterity test. It was observed that though performance was generally low, there were still minimal marginal performance across combinations and main effects of the manipulated variables. There was main effect of gender on eye-hand coordination performance, where females did better than the males, significant interactive effects of genre and volume where participants exposed to low Fuji and Gospel music performed better than any other combinations, There was also significant effect of gender and volume effects on eye-hand coordination performance, where females exposed to high level of music performed better than any other combinations.. The combinations of genre, gender and volume of music revealed that females who were exposed to gospel music with high volume outperformed others followed by males who were exposed to fuji music with high volume followed closely.  The implications of these findings for the equivocality recorded in the literature were discussed.