Examining the relationship between instrument practice habits, motivation towards instrument lessons, and instrument performance self-efficacy in music education

Authors : Ülkü Sevim Şen, Şevki Özer Akçay, Yavuz Şen

Pages : 291-303

Doi:10.31811/ojomus.1648128

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Publication Date : 2025-04-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study aims to determine the relationship between the individual instrument practice habits of students receiving vocational music training and their motivation toward instrumental lessons, as well as their self-efficacy beliefs regarding instrumental performance. In this study, a multifactor predictive correlational research model was employed to test direct and indirect relationships within the framework of quantitative research. The data used in this study were obtained from 255 students receiving professional music education at three different faculties of a university, following a purposive sampling approach. During the data collection process, the Individual Instrument Practice Habits Scale, the Individual Instrument Lesson Motivation Scale, and the Instrument Performance Self-Efficacy Belief Scale were utilized in a single session to collect data. The results show that, all three variables were positively related to each other, but the relationship between instrument practice habits and instrument lesson motivation was the strongest. This means that individual’s instrument practice habits play a significant role in determining motivation toward their instrument lesson. Using structural equation modeling, we analyzed the effects of students’ instrument practice habits on their instrument lesson motivations and instrument performance self-efficacy beliefs. Our model predicted that instrument practice habits directly influence both motivation and self-efficacy beliefs and that motivation has a direct effect on self-efficacy beliefs. In this case, instrument practice habits may have an indirect effect on self-efficacy beliefs.
Keywords : mesleki müzik eğitimi, çalgı eğitimi, müzikal performans