Krause Amanda E, Forbes Melissa, Lowe-Brown Xanthe
Department of Psychology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Centre for Heritage and Culture, School of Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
J Voice. 2025 Jan;39(1):280.e15-280.e24. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.06.024. Epub 2022 Jul 23.
Due to upward social comparison, we hypothesized that exposure to reality television singing (a technically demanding style of contemporary commercial music singing) would negatively influence singing self-concept compared to hearing amateur singers or plain, unembellished singing by professionals.
A between-subjects, online experiment was used. A sample of 212 individuals (Mage = 33.14; 69.30% female) participated in the study. After completing a background section, participants were randomly allocated into one of the experimental conditions (hearing one of four versions of a well-known song: a control version with piano and no singing, amateur singing, professional plain singing, and professional singing in the style of reality television singing). Participants were then asked to judge the performance they heard and to respond to items concerning their singing self-concept (including singing ability).
A series of ANCOVAs was used to examine the impact of the experimental condition on the participants' performance judgments and singing self-concept. The amateur singing was judged as the lowest quality. While there was no significant difference by experimental condition regarding possessing good singing ability, the experimental condition did affect people's singing aspirations and perceived ability to sing along with the performers. The pattern of results suggests that exposure to reality television-style singing may have negative impacts on people's singing self-concept via upward social comparison. Self-concept has been identified as an important predictor of musical engagement and participation and plays a role in motivating action. These results encourage music educators, singing voice pedagogues, and community musicians seeking to promote musical and singing participation to be aware of cultural influences on an individual's singing self-concept.
由于向上的社会比较，我们假设与聆听业余歌手演唱或专业歌手质朴无修饰的演唱相比，接触真人秀歌唱节目（当代商业音乐演唱中一种对技巧要求很高的风格）会对歌唱自我概念产生负面影响。
采用了一项组间在线实验。212名个体（年龄均值=33.14岁；69.30%为女性）参与了该研究。在完成一个背景部分后，参与者被随机分配到其中一个实验条件组（聆听一首知名歌曲的四个版本之一：钢琴伴奏且无演唱的控制版本、业余歌手演唱、专业歌手质朴演唱以及真人秀歌唱节目风格的专业歌手演唱）。然后要求参与者评判他们所听到的表演，并回答有关他们歌唱自我概念（包括歌唱能力）的问题。
使用了一系列协方差分析来检验实验条件对参与者表演评判和歌唱自我概念的影响。业余歌手的演唱被评判为质量最低。虽然在拥有良好歌唱能力方面，实验条件之间没有显著差异，但实验条件确实影响了人们的歌唱抱负以及与表演者一起演唱的感知能力。结果模式表明，接触真人秀风格的歌唱可能通过向上的社会比较对人们的歌唱自我概念产生负面影响。自我概念已被确定为音乐参与和参与度的重要预测指标，并在激励行动中发挥作用。这些结果促使音乐教育工作者、声乐教师和社区音乐家在寻求促进音乐和歌唱参与时，要意识到文化对个体歌唱自我概念的影响。
