Musicae Scientiae ( IF 2.725 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-17 , DOI: 10.1177/10298649211013505 Julian Cespedes-Guevara 1 , Nicola Dibben 2
This article reports a two-part study into the prosocial impacts of third sector cultural activities with children and adolescents in impoverished and violence-stricken urban neighbourhoods in Cali, Colombia. First, a year-long field study set out to compare a pre-existing music-training programme with a dance-training programme and a football-training programme with 9–14 year olds, to determine the extent to which each affords the development of empathic attitudes and prosocial behaviours. The music and dance programmes produced few significant changes in participants’ empathy or prosociality, and there were few significant differences between the empathy and prosociality of the participants in the two groups. Participant dropout prevented comparison with the football-training programme. Second, an interview study was used to understand the place of prosociality in the aims and work of policymakers, funders and third-sector practitioners running cultural activities for social impacts in the Cali region. The study revealed that the organisations aimed to achieve individual and social transformation by creating the conditions for transformation, evidenced as positive outcomes. Neither the measures used by the organisations themselves nor the psychosocial constructs of prosociality and empathy used by the researchers adequately evidenced some of the intended outcomes, such as enabling individuals to build a life project, practising and sustaining social inclusion and transforming communities, nor a path from individual to social transformation. Differences between the structure of cultural activities and their associated values meant that different activities were believed to lend themselves to social transformation more or less well. This highlights the need for critically reflective, co-constructed research using a fuller range of constructs that can capture the outcomes of these programmes for both individuals and groups.
中文翻译:
在哥伦比亚促进亲社会:音乐是否比其他文化干预更有效?
本文报告了一项由两部分组成的研究,研究第三部门文化活动对哥伦比亚卡利贫困和饱受暴力袭击的城市社区中的儿童和青少年的亲社会影响。首先,一项为期一年的实地研究开始对 9-14 岁儿童的现有音乐训练计划与舞蹈训练计划和足球训练计划进行比较,以确定每种计划在多大程度上提供了发展移情态度和亲社会行为。音乐和舞蹈节目对参与者的同理心或亲社会性几乎没有产生显着变化,并且两组参与者的同理心和亲社会性之间几乎没有显着差异。参与者辍学阻止了与足球训练计划的比较。第二,一项访谈研究被用来了解亲社会在政策制定者、资助者和在卡利地区开展社会影响文化活动的第三部门从业者的目标和工作中的地位。研究表明,这些组织旨在通过创造转型条件来实现个人和社会转型,这证明是积极的成果。组织本身使用的措施和研究人员使用的亲社会性和同理心的社会心理结构都没有充分证明某些预期结果,例如使个人能够建立一个 研究表明,这些组织旨在通过创造转型条件来实现个人和社会转型,这证明是积极的成果。组织本身使用的措施和研究人员使用的亲社会性和同理心的社会心理结构都没有充分证明某些预期结果,例如使个人能够建立一个 研究表明,这些组织旨在通过创造转型条件来实现个人和社会转型,这证明是积极的成果。组织本身使用的措施和研究人员使用的亲社会性和同理心的社会心理结构都没有充分证明某些预期结果,例如使个人能够建立一个生活项目,实践和维持社会包容和改造社区,也不是从个人到社会改造的路径。文化活动结构及其相关价值之间的差异意味着不同的活动被认为或多或少地有助于社会转型。这突出了使用更全面的结构进行批判性反思、共同构建的研究的必要性,这些结构可以为个人和团体捕捉这些计划的结果。