Journal article
How accurate are self-evaluations of singing ability?
D Yeom, KS Stead, YT Tan, GE McPherson, SJ Wilson
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | WILEY | Published : 2023
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15081
Abstract
Research has shown that people inaccurately assess their own abilities on self-report measures, including academic, athletic, and music ability. Evidence suggests this is also true for singing, with individuals either overestimating or underestimating their level of singing competency. In this paper, we present the Melbourne Singing Tool Questionnaire (MST-Q), a brief 16-item measure exploring people's self-perceptions of singing ability and engagement with singing. Using a large sample of Australian twins (n = 996), we identified three latent factors underlying MST-Q items and examined whether these factors were related to an objective phenotypic measure of singing ability. The three factor..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the twins for their participation in the study. We thank Trisnasari Fraser for her assistance with recruitment and Dr. Valerie Yap for her help with cleaning the data. We also thank Mark Solly and Oscar Correa for their assistance in developing the Melbourne Singing Tool. This research was supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grants (DP170102479 and DP200100961) and an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. The research was facilitated through access to Twins Research Australia, a national resource supported by a Centre of Research Excellence Grant (ID: 1079102) from the National Health and Medical Research Council.r Open access publishing facilitated by The University of Melbourne, as part of the Wiley - The University of Melbourne agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.