Login Register

Environment and Social Psychology

  • Home
  • About the Journal
    • Focus and Scope
    • Peer Review Process
    • Open Access Policy
    • Publishing Ethics
    • Erratum & Withdrawal Policies
    • Copyright & Licence
    • Indexing & Archiving
    • Article Processing Charges (APC) Payment
    • Publisher
    • Contact
  • Article
    • Current
    • Archives
  • Submissions
  • Editorial Team
  • Announcements
  • Special Issues
Apply for Editorial Board Submit an Article

editor-in-chief

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Paola Magnano
Kore University of Enna
Italy

Prof. Dr. Gabriela Topa
Social and organizational Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
Spain

indexing-and-archiving

Indexing & Archiving

issn

ISSN

ISSN: 2424-8975 (Online)

ISSN: 2424-7979 (Print)

apc

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

US$1700

frequency

Publication Frequency

Monthly since 2024

Most Viewed

  • The Role of Social Support and Environment: The Mediating Effect of College Students’ Psychology and Behavior
    9142
  • The sustainable practice of education fairness in China: The influence of college students’ perceptions of senior teachers' support on students’ well-being
    8347
  • The Balance Between Resource Development And Environmental Protection Is “Social Contracting”: The Case Of LAPSSET Project In Kenya
    8005
  • Analyzing impacts of campus journalism on student’s grammar consciousness and confidence in writing engagements
    7739
  • A trip down memory lane: Sustaining collective memory through old shophouses in Jalan Mendaling Kajang, Selangor
    6238

Keywords

Home > Archives > Vol. 11 No. 1 (2026): Published > Research Articles
ESP-4514

Published

2026-01-30

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2026): Published

Section

Research Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2026 Jiangang Wang*

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The journal adopts the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which means that anyone can reuse and redistribute the materials for non-commercial purposes as long as you follow the license terms and the original source is properly cited.

Author(s) shall retain the copyright of their work and grant the Journal/Publisher rights for the first publication with the work concurrently licensed since 2023 Vol.8 No.2.

Under this license, author(s) will allow third parties to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content under the condition that the authors are given credit. No permission is required from the authors or the publisher.

This broad license intends to facilitate free access, as well as the unrestricted use of original works of all types. This ensures that the published work is freely and openly available in perpetuity.

By providing open access, the following benefits are brought about:

  • Higher Visibility, Availability and Citations-free and unlimited accessibility of the publication over the internet without any restrictions increases citation of the article.
  • Ease of search-publications are easily searchable in search engines and indexing databases.
  • Rapid Publication – accepted papers are immediately published online.
  • Available for free download immediately after publication at https://esp.as-pub.com/index.php/ESP

 

Copyright Statement

1.The authors certify that the submitted manuscripts are original works, do not infringe the rights of others, are free from academic misconduct and confidentiality issues, and that there are no disputes over the authorship scheme of the collaborative articles. In case of infringement, academic misconduct and confidentiality issues, as well as disputes over the authorship scheme, all responsibilities will be borne by the authors.

2. The author agrees to grant the Editorial Office of Environment and Social Psychology a licence to use the reproduction right, distribution right, information network dissemination right, performance right, translation right, and compilation right of the submitted manuscript, including the work as a whole, as well as the diagrams, tables, abstracts, and any other parts that can be extracted from the work and used in accordance with the characteristics of the journal. The Editorial Board of Environment and Social Psychology has the right to use and sub-licence the above mentioned works for wide dissemination in print, electronic and online versions, and, in accordance with the characteristics of the periodical, for the period of legal protection of the property right of the copyright in the work, and for the territorial scope of the work throughout the world.

3. The authors are entitled to the copyright of their works under the relevant laws of Singapore, provided that they do not exercise their rights in a manner prejudicial to the interests of the Journal.

About Licence

Environment and Social Psychology is an open access journal and all published work is available under the Creative Commons Licence, Authors shall retain copyright of their work and grant the journal/publisher the right of first publication, and their work shall be licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Under this licence, the author grants permission to third parties to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content with attribution to the author. No permission from the author or publisher is required.

This broad licence is intended to facilitate free access to and unrestricted use of original works of all kinds. This ensures that published works remain free and accessible in perpetuity. Submitted manuscripts, once accepted, are immediately available to the public and permanently accessible free of charge on the journal’s official website (https://esp.as-pub.com/index.php/ESP). Allowing users to read, download, copy, print, search for or link to the full text of the article, or use it for other legal purposes. However, the use of the work must retain the author's signature, be limited to non-commercial purposes, and not be interpretative.

Click to download <Agreement on the Licence for the Use of Copyright on Environmental and Social Psychology>.

How to Cite

Jianyun Wei. (2026). A study on the effects of emotional expression training in music education on enhancing children’s psychological motivation. Environment and Social Psychology, 11(1), ESP-4514. https://doi.org/10.59429/esp.v11i1.4514
  • ACM
  • ACS
  • APA
  • ABNT
  • Chicago
  • Harvard
  • IEEE
  • MLA
  • Turabian
  • Vancouver

  • Download Citation
  • Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS)
  • BibTeX

A study on the effects of emotional expression training in music education on enhancing children's psychological motivation

Jianyun Wei

Department of Global Convergence, Kangwon National University, Gangwon province, Korea


DOI: https://doi.org/10.59429/esp.v11i1.4514


Keywords: emotional expression training; music education; psychological motivation; children; questionnaire study


Abstract

The present article investigated the effects of emotional expressive training on music education on the psychological motivation among children based on quasi-experimental data provided by Guri music education project in Brazil. The results found that this training was significant in reducing the emotional symptoms in children and that the effect was more pronounced in children in families with low maternal educational level. The training also assisted children in acquiring a better understanding of musical selections and relate to the music emotionally, especially sad music. The study also indicates using the Self-Determination Theory that emotional promotion was a key element in internalizing the learning motivation, whereby, high-quality autonomous motivation was realized by satisfying the children with the need to belong and to be competent. This study presents a theoretical model, which correlates emotional enhancement to motivation internalization and recommends to employ systematic practice of emotional expression, in an autonomous-supportive instructional framework. The results present useful insights that would help in bettering the psychological and social development of children and give empirical evidence on why music education should be used as a means of promoting educational equity


References

[1]. 1. G. Bortz; B. Ilari; N. D. G. Germano; A. P. Jackowski; H. Cogo-Moreira; P. S. Lúcio. Music education reduces emotional symptoms in children: A quasi-experimental study in the Guri Program in Brazil. medRxiv 2024, doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.02.24309793.

[2]. 2. R. C. Plate; C. Jones; J. Steinberg; G. Daley; N. Corbett; R. Waller. Children's knowledge and feelings align in response to emotional music. Developmental Psychology 2024, 60(2), 265–270, doi:https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001673.

[3]. 3. Yuwei Zhang; Qimeng Mao; Jun Xu; Hassan M. Aljohani; Bassant Elkalzah; Ghareeb A. Marei. On the exponent power sine Lomax distribution with applications in the music education and radiation fields. Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences 2026, 19, 102109, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrras.2025.102109

[4]. 4. .Sakhiseni Joseph Yende. Reshaping Music Education: Inclusive Pedagogies and Curriculum Renewal. IGI Global Scientific Publishing 2025.

[5]. 5. Weiting Zhong; Decai Wang; Zhijian Li. Practical Exploration of Ideological and Political Education in the Art Guidance Course for Music Graduate Students. World Journal of Educational Research 2025, 12, doi:https://doi.org/10.22158/wjer.v12n6p159

[6]. 6. Jiaxing Xie; David G. Hebert. A Philosophy of Music Education for the Era of AI. Taylor & Francis 2026.

[7]. 7. Luyin Yang; Guochao Li. Historical Practice, Cultural Characteristics and Contemporary Enlightenment of Music Education in Gulangyu: A Study Based on Oral History. Journal of Sociology and Education 2025, 1, doi:https://doi.org/10.63887/jse.2025.1.9.26

[8]. 8. Jiahui Liu; Jing Liu; Hong Yan. From Gaze to Music: AI-Powered Personalized Audiovisual Experiences for Children’ s Aesthetic Education. Behavioral Sciences 2025, 15, 1684, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15121684

[9]. 9. Liza Lee; Ying Sing Liu. Pre-evaluation of learning status based on logit models for music education in young children with special needs. Thinking Skills and Creativity 2026, 60, 102063, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2025.102063

[10]. 10. Lin Yue. The promotive effect of music education on children’ s emotional regulation ability: An empirical study based on emotion regulation theory and empathy training. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2025, 51, S337, doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaf199.004

[11]. 11. Barbara Blanc; Seda Aydan; Christoforos Mamas. Pre-teaching to enhance inclusive learning: Connecting cognition, motivation, volition, and emotion. Frontiers in Education 2025, 10, 1636343, doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1636343

[12]. 12. Jiaxin Yang; Qian Wan; Qingya Li; Jianwen Chen. Achievement emotion profiles and their associations with learning motivation, engagement, and academic achievement among Chinese college students. European Journal of Psychology of Education 2025, 40, 125, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-025-01029-2

[13]. 13. Yuxuan Ge. The relationship between music education and children’ s social-emotional development: A literature review. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science 2025, 9, doi:https://doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2025.10.017

[14]. 14. Feifei Li. Research on the role of music education in the development of non-cognitive abilities in young children. Journal of Modern Education and Culture 2025, 2, doi:https://doi.org/10.70767/jmec.v2i6.699

[15]. 15. Haozhuo Lin; Qiu Chen. Does artificial intelligence-assisted learning positively affect college students’ motivation, emotion regulation, and academic uncertainty? Insight from situated learning theory. Learning and Motivation 2025, 92, 102202, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102202

[16]. 16. Ruhaila Maskat; Nor Hapiza Mohd Ariffin; Nurul Akhmal Dzulkefli. A dataset of psychological emotional expressions relating to depression, anxiety and stress for Malay language model training. Data in Brief 2025, 62, 111893, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.111893

[17]. 17. Jing Qian. The relationship between parental investment and high school students’ academic achievement: The mediating role of academic emotions and the moderating role of learning motivation. Acta Psychologica 2025, 259, 105364, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105364

[18]. 18. Anna C. M. Queiroz; Jeremy N. Bailenson; Kristen Pilner Blair; Daniel L. Schwartz; Candace Thille; Anthony D. Wagner. Self-review and feedback in virtual reality dialogues increase language markers of personal and emotional expression in an empathetic communication training experience. Computers & Education: X Reality 2025, 7, 100108, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cexr.2025.100108

[19]. 19. Haiyan Chen. Emotion computation in English classrooms empowered by digital twins through multimodal biosignal integration and dynamic prediction of learning motivation. International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems 2025, doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129156425407673

[20]. 20. Christos Rentzios; Evangelia Karagiannopoulou; Georgios Ntritsos. Academic emotions, emotion regulation, academic motivation, and approaches to learning: A person-centered approach. Behavioral Sciences 2025, 15, 900, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15070900

[21]. 21. Yuxia Cao. Teaching reform of the “Music Education for Preschool Children” course in open education based on learners’ needs. Open Journal of Social Sciences 2025, 13, 304–314, doi:https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2025.136021

[22]. 22. Xiaolei Zhang. From children to society: A brief comparison of Chinese and Korean music education. Journal of Contemporary Educational Research 2025, 9, 140–149, doi:https://doi.org/10.26689/jcer.v9i5.10735

[23]. 23. Liang, D.C.; Yum, Y.N. Music education for autistic children with intellectual disability: Parental attitudes and support. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 2025, prepublish, 1–11, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-06907-8

[24]. 24. Madalozzo, V.A.; Fernandes, N.; Ilari, B. Intersections between music education and the sociology of childhood in Brazil: Searching for children’ s agency and musical protagonism. Global Studies of Childhood 2025, 15, 209–224, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106251341221.

[25]. 25. Wang, L. Children’ s enlightenment music education based on digital technology. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 2025, 41, e70022, doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.70022.

[26]. 26. Tian, T.; Mohd Isa, Z.B. Exploring the relationship between psychological capital and teaching willingness of children’ s music education teachers. Academic Journal of Management and Social Sciences 2025, 10, 223–229, doi:https://doi.org/10.54097/0G320909.

[27]. 27. Pan, Y.; Bautista, A.; Kong, S.H. Importance attributed to music education by Hong Kong parents and prediction of children’ s music participation. Education Sciences 2025, 15, 250, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15020250.

[28]. 28. Huhtinen-Hildén, L.; Kivijärvi, S.; Elomaa Krapu, M.; Isola, A.M. Creating affordances for families with young children: Experiences of music education in social work. International Journal of Music Education 2025, 43, 6–21, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/02557614241307240.

[29]. 29. Lin, K. Trauma-sensitive teaching: Supporting refugee students through music education. International Journal of Music Education 2025, 43, 120–131, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/02557614241307698.

[30]. 30. Veloso, A.L.; Foletto, C. Introducing a sound-based music education in early childhood: The role of sonic and musical tools in the development of teleomusicality. Music Education Research 2025, 27, 54–72, doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2024.2447239.

[31]. 31. Grimsby, R.; Armes, J. Perceptions and experiences of preservice music educators working with students with disabilities: A mixed methods inquiry of online field experiences within a music for special education course. International Journal of Music Education 2024, 42, 584–596, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/02557614231188126.

[32]. 32. Hu, M. Research on the value and path of family art education: Take vocal music education as an example. Journal of Research in Vocational Education 2024, 6, 43–47, doi:https://doi.org/10.53469/jrve.2024.6(10).08.

[33]. 33. Saeedinia, E.; Poursharifi, H.; Momeni, F.; Vahedi, M.; Abdi, M.; Sadeghi, A.; Ghahremani, R. Exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy with complementary awareness and emotional expression training for alleviating irritable bowel syndrome. Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Bed to Bench 2024, 17, 389–399, doi:https://doi.org/10.22037/ghfbb.v17i4.2930.

[34]. 34. Büdenbender, B.; Höfling, T.T.A.; Gerdes, A.B.M.; Alpers, G.W. Training machine learning algorithms for automatic facial coding: The role of emotional facial expressions’ prototypicality. PLOS ONE 2023, 18, e0281309, doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281309.

[35]. 35. Onishi, E.; Ishikawa, H.; Ito, K.; Nakagawa, S.; Shiozawa, Y.; Uemura, T.; Ouchi, K. Culturally acceptable emotional expressions perceived by non-U.S. physicians undergoing U.S.-based serious illness communication skills training: A cross-sectional study. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2022, 40, 10499091221148151, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/10499091221148151.

[36]. 36. Hallam, S.; Creech, A.; Varvarigou, M.; McQueen, H. Perceived benefits of active engagement with making music in community settings. International Journal of Community Music 2012, 5, 155–174, doi:https://doi.org/10.1386/ijcm.5.2.155_1.

[37]. 37. Mellor, L. What is ‘known’ in community music in higher education? Engagement, emotional learning and an ecology of ideas from the student perspective. International Journal of Community Music 2011, 4, 257–275, doi:https://doi.org/10.1386/ijcm.4.3.257_1

[38]. 38. Rasoul H ,Mina K ,Shahin A , et al. Pathways Linking Parental Care and Control to Loneliness in Breast Cancer Patients with A History of Childhood Maltreatment: Exploring the Mediating Roles of Ambivalence Over Emotional Expression and Self-Discrepancy. Journal of interpersonal violence, 2023, 39 (9-10): 8862605231218678-8862605231218678. DOI:10.1177/08862605231218678.

[39]. 39. MingHong T . The interpersonal effects of emotional expressions with both and single valences on work-related satisfaction: an examination of emotions and perceived openness as mediators. Cognition & emotion, 2023, 38 (3): 11-17. DOI:10.1080/02699931.2023.2299981.

[40]. 40. Cardoso, M. A., Morgado, E. M. G., & Leonido, L. (2023). Unleashing creative synergies: A mixed-method case study in music education classrooms. Applied Sciences, 13(17), Article 9842. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13179842

[41]. 41. Leonido, L., Cardoso, M. A., & Morgado, E. M. G. (2024). The interdisciplinary method of musical literacy, education and artistic sensibilization: Objectives, structure and evaluation. International Journal of Education and Practice, 12(3), 782–796. https://doi.org/10.18488/61.v12i3.3756

[42]. 42. -Leonido, L., Pereira, A., Mendes, L., Rodrigues, J., & Morgado, E. M. G. (2023). Art education: Two decades of creation, evaluation and application of an interdisciplinary method of artistic literacy. Education Sciences, 13(6), Article 589. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13060589



ISSN: 2424-8975
21 Woodlands Close #02-10, Primz Bizhub,Postal 737854, Singapore

Email:editorial_office@as-pub.com