Abstract
The article is dedicated to the study if students with special musical education have any benefits of stress coping over students of other specialties during the pandemic. The main purpose is to study the attitude of student musicians to overcome stressful situations caused by COVID-19 in the learning process. Research objectives include: current state of music education in the context of forced quarantine distance learning; the impact of forced quarantine distance learning on stress among students of music and non-music specialties; the analysis of stress coping skills and the impact of music education on them; recommendations for improving the psychological and pedagogical interaction of the participants in the educational process. The study involved 160 respondents, 80 of them are music students and 80 students of other specialties that do not belong to the study of musical art. To collect information and data, the study participants were asked to fill out a Google form. The results of the study show that online learning is very time-consuming and that losing a satisfactory work-life balance is stressful. But students became more organized in managing their activities. Internet platforms have proven useful for sharing materials, communicating, sharing information and content, and keeping track of all work done. Thus, there is a tendency towards easier tolerance of stress by musicians, although our study showed that with a slight margin of 80.6%, people without musical education consider themselves happier by 82%. This is also confirmed by the fact that non-musicians are more optimistic about their future according to the results obtained on the Beck's Hopelessness Scale, where 2 units are for musicians and 1 for non-musicians. These results indicate that hopelessness has not been identified and students are optimistic about their future. In the context of stress coping recommendations for students are provided. In conclusion, based on the information gained and own experience there is a variety of ways to obtain benefits from both online and offline learning forms for both musicians and non-musicians.
Highlights
As you know, our world had a chance to face a global problem in the form of COVID-19 [1; 17], which greatly influenced the social order
It can be assumed that music students in higher education who have constant contact with music cope better with stress compared to students in other specialties
To collect information and data, the study participants were asked to fill out a google form, it is important to note that the forms were slightly different for students musicians and non-musicians, so students musicians were asked to answer the question “How often do you listen to music outside of class?” And for non-musicians “ How often do you listen to music in general? " The form for musicians included 12 general and specific questions to determine their attitude to coping with the stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and forced distance learning [12]
Summary
Our world had a chance to face a global problem in the form of COVID-19 [1; 17], which greatly influenced the social order. According to the results of the study, it became clear that distance learning is more likely to have a detrimental effect on the quality of education, and makes students experience severe stress during the learning process. We assume that students of other specialties, and not just psychologists, experience severe stress. Everyone finds their own ways to cope with this phenomenon. The question arose about how exactly students of other specialties, in particular musicians, cope with stress, and do they do better than other students? It can be assumed that music students in higher education who have constant contact with music cope better with stress compared to students in other specialties. Unlike ordinary people who listen to music, university students devote a lot of time and effort to this process
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