Positive music can calm the child

Pages:333-336
Archana, R. (Department of Clinical Psychology, SRM University, Chennai )
Surendra Kumar Sia (Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University. Puducherry)

Humans have the innate capacity to understand emotions conveyed even in unfamiliar music and the earliest form of human exposure to music is maternal singing of lullabies. In this study music has been used as a medium to pacify restless infants before sleep and in their conditions like anger and attention seeking. Two groups of infants between 4-10 months of age were observed for their responses to lullaby and play-song respectively. They were observed over a week with and without using music and time taken to calm down was noted in each condition. Results suggest that music has a positive effect in pacifying infants