The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of musical activities on students’ emotional intelligence. Participants were drawn from 21 college freshmen stu- dents majoring in Leisure and Recreation Management from a University in Taiwan. Eight musical activities were used for this study, semi-opened questionnaires and students’ “feedback” assignments were analyzed and compared using “content analysis” to serve as outcome measures. The results demonstrated positive impact on compo- nents of emotional intelligenge, including: (1) emotional adjustment abilities, such as students could aware themselves and others’ emotions, and could make self-reflection through musical activities; (2) social relationship, such as musical activities could improve students’ self-expression and communication abilities well as well as provide students opportunities to know each other better; (3) self encouragement, such as students learned to use music to encourage themselves and others, and also learned to improve their creative thinking which in turned also increased their self-assertiveness.
Finally, based on the research findings, discussion and recommendations for implementation of musical activities and subsequent evaluation techniques were proposed along with guidelines for future research.

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