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i3 Conference
“Information: Interactions and Impact”
Aberdeen, 23-26 June 2015
The impact of personality traits on music information
seeking and musical creativity
Petros Kostagiolas
Charilaos Lavranos
Assistant Professor,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Archive, Library
Science and Museology,
Department of Music
Studies,
Ionian University
Ionian University
[email protected]
[email protected]
Konstantina Martzoukou
Lecturer,
Department of
Information
Management,
Robert Gordon University,
[email protected]
Joseph Papadatos
Professor,
Department of Music
Studies,
Ionian University
[email protected]
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Theoretical Grounding
Personality
“Some people are highly tolerant of ambiguity
and uncertainty, whereas others demand
specificity and completeness.
…some enjoy social interactions and adopt
information-seeking patterns that maximise
interactions with colleagues or experts..
…others prefer the challenge of personal
discovery and immerse themselves in books or
electronic systems” (Marchionini , 1995, p. 72)
“the pattern of
characteristic
thoughts, feelings,
and behaviours that
distinguishes one
person from another
and that persists over
time and situation”
(Phares, 1991)
Musical Creativity
Musicians express themselves
through musical creative
activities/processes that result
to the creation of musical
products (Lock, 2011).
• three basic creative activities
– a. composition
– b. performance and improvisation
– c. listening and analysis
What is Information Seeking Behaviour?
“the study of how people need,
seek, give, and use information
in different contexts, including
the workplace and everyday
living” (Pettigrew et al, 2001)
“a process in which humans purposefully
engage in order to change their state
of knowledge” (Marchionini, 1995)
“a process that includes multiple stages
of question asking and refining,
information gathering and
evaluating…synthesis and use of
information” (Wallace et al, 2000).
Information seeking
Information seeking is triggered
by a variety of information needs
goals (work, health-related, social
and recreational, personal goals)
involves a process of uncertainty
reduction in the state of
knowledge of an individual
It may be structured or
unsystematic, active or
passive process, goaloriented or incidental
(Case, 2012)
Rationale
information needs
and information
seeking behaviour
for creative work
geared towards
the theoretical
rather than the
practical aspects of
music work as a
creative process
(e.g. musicology)
(Hunter 2008)
Personality Traits
Self-efficacy
Self-esteem
Locus of control
Neuroticism
Wilson’s (1999) macro-model of Information
Behaviour
Webster’s (2002) Creative Thinking in Music
Information
needs/
motivations
Physiological,
affective,
cognitive
Barriers/
enablers
Information
use
Aim
To study the role of personality traits on music
information seeking behaviour and their impact
on musical creativity, focusing on creative
activities: performance, improvisation, listening,
and analysis
Hypotheses
The different personality
The musicians’ personality traits
dimensions of musicians (e.g. affect the perceived importance of
self-efficacy, self-esteem,
information for creative activities
locus of control and
– performance, improvisation,
listening, and analysis
neuroticism) affect :
– their motives, their preferred The level of information needs
sources and the obstacles
satisfaction is associated with the
encountered in information musicians’ personality characteristics
seeking
Survey Profile
Research Methodology & Instrument
Questionnaire
– A 12-item Core Self-Evaluations Scale
(CSES) (Judge et al., 2003) based on NEO
Five-Factor Personality Inventory (NEOFFI) (Costa and McCrae, 1992)
– a music creativity model developed by
Webster (2002)
– The information behaviour model,
proposed by Wilson (2006)
– pilot test - eight experts in music
field
– music communities of Corfu Island
(music educators, composers,
performers, academics)
– 200 musicians / 174 agreed (87%)
Spyros Samaras Writer of the Olympic Hymn first played at
the first Olympic games in Athens 1896
Dionisios Solomos: National Greek Anthem 1854
Survey profile
Role/impact of information
Information has a higher
impact on ‘Listening’ for
women
The higher the age the more
the impact on ‘Analysis’
Information motives
The older they are
the more they
search for specific
pieces of
information
All the above motives
are significant for
professional
musicians but men
perceive information
to have more impact
on performance
Specific Types of Information Needs
Professional musicians
Older musicians
Women are less interested
in musical instruments
Information resources
Younger musicians use
less personal collections
The older they are the
more they use
interpersonal sources
Younger musicians use
Google even more
Younger musicians use
public libraries even less
Obstacles
Particularly
younger
musicians! Does
this explain the
use of Google?
Was a problem for
professionals together
with abundance of
information and cost
Satisfaction with Information Availability / Personality
Traits
women
Les than the normal
average of around 4.
Attention should also
be given to
‘Neuroticism’
Corer self-evaluations in more detail
Professional and
older musicians
have higher SEF
values
Results
Most professional
musicians are older
Female musicians
are more satisfied
Older & professional
musicians: more SEF
and satisfaction with
information
The role of style on creativity outcomes
More positive soreself evaluations
more control
More control more
intention for
performance
Style and music activity intentions
Those with higher selfefficacy are involved
more in all of these
activities
Results
Information sources and self evaluations
Results
Lack of PC
skills lower
evaluation
scales
Could indicate
a level of selfsufficiency?
No need to
develop skills?
Less neuroticism
more lack of
trust
Less
neuroticism
the more
cost becomes
a problem
Information Seeking Behaviour in the context of
Music!
Roger Waters - Who Needs Information
• proposed a research model:
– impact of personality dimensions on
music information seeking and the way in
which they influence music creative
activities:
•
musical composition, performance and
improvisation, and listening and analysis
• The results provide preliminary evidence
for a new framework which shows that
personality dimensions are implicated in
the process of music information seeking.
• future research: the interaction of
personality dimensions in music
information seeking and how they
interact with specific musical creativity
needs
Thank you for
listening!
Our forthcoming book: KOSTAGIOLAS, P. ,
MARTZOUKOU, K. & LAVRANOS, C. Trends
in Music Information Seeking, Behavior, and
Retrieval for Creativity. IGI Global
A couple of other publications :
LAVRANOS, C., KOSTAGIOLAS, P. ,
PAPADATOS, J. & MARTZOUKOU, K. 2015.
Music information seeking behaviour as
motivator for musical creativity: Conceptual
analysis and literature review. Journal of
Documentation, 71(5)
KOSTAGIOLAS, P., LAVRANOS, CH. &
MARTZOUKOU, K. AND PAPADATOS, J. 2015.
Keeping the score: outreach services and
collaboration for academic music libraries in
financially straitened times. Library
Management, 36(8/9)
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