Abstract
<p style="text-align:justify">The present study aims to investigate the problem-solving skills of the students getting professional music training. For this study, the problem-solving inventory was administered to participants from two different universities in Turkey. Participants’ problem-solving skills were assessed in relation to the overall inventory and subscales, and the differences based on grade level, gender, and universities were examined using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Results revealed that participants occasionally used their problem-solving skills, rarely felt confident in their problem-solving skills, and occasionally performed the behaviors in the subscales of approach-avoidance and personal control. The grade level differentiated music students’ problem-solving skills in the overall scale and approach-avoidance subscale. It is also found that there are no significant differences in students’ problem-solving skills based on gender. However, the participants’ universities led to significant differences in the approach-avoidance subscale. The results were discussed considering the literature, and the recommendations were suggested due to the results.</p>
Highlights
Individuals constantly face different problems span of their lives and seek ways to solve these problems
The differences between the scores of the Faculty of Fine Arts (FAF) students on the problem-solving inventory and its subscales based on grade level were investigated, performing single factor variance analysis for independent samples (One Way ANOVA)
Independent samples t-test was used to analyze the differences in the problem-solving inventory and its subscales based on gender
Summary
Individuals constantly face different problems span of their lives and seek ways to solve these problems. According to Karasar (2009), each difficulty to be solved represents a problem in itself, and the person feels cognitively and behaviorally uncomfortable and needs to overcome it. To eliminate this discomfort or cope with this situation, the individual seeks various ways, makes decisions, or develops strategies. In other words, Bingham (1998) describes problem-solving as the process of overcoming the difficulties encountered in reaching a goal and points out that individual look for ways to get rid of stress and bring the organism to an internal balance by complying with conditions or reducing obstacles. According to Elliott and Baker (2008) “problem-solving is one approach to teaching and learning which supports content-based learning along with a variety of other such skills as decision-making, time management and problemsolving”
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