The relationship between university students attitude towards listening to music and their level of optimism

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyse the relationship between university students’ attitude to listening to music and their level of optimism. The study group for the research consists of 508 students who studied at Aksaray University in the 2012-13 academic year. Simple random sampling is used. In this study, the “Attitude Scale for Listening to Music” and the “Optimism Scale”, which were developed by the researcher, are used for measurement. According to the findings of the research study, there is a significant correlation at the level of .430 between students’ attitudes to listening to music and their level of optimism. The level of optimism has a positive impact on the attitude to listening to music at the level of .184.   Key words: Attitude, Listening to music, Optimism