Sing more, feel better! When science confirms the obvious!
Strangely, this study finds "but not to caregiver mood"??? This seems to be highly odd and could be a sign of a flawed study approach.
"Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, new findings support that singing is an easy, safe, and free way to help improve the mental well-being of infants. Because improved mood in infancy is associated with a greater quality of life for both parents and babies, this in turn has benefits for the health of the entire family, the researchers say. The study also helps explain why musical behaviors may have evolved in parents. ...
Not only did the parents sing more frequently, but they also chose to use music especially in one context in particular: calming their infants when they were fussy. ..."
From the abstract:
"Music appears universally in human infancy with self-evident effects: as many parents know intuitively, infants love to be sung to. The long-term effects of parental singing remain unclear, however.
In an offset-design exploratory 10-week randomized trial conducted in 2023 (110 families of young infants, Mage = 3.67 months, 53% female, 73% White), the study manipulated the frequency of infant-directed singing via a music enrichment intervention. Results, measured by smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA), show that infant-directed singing causes general post-intervention improvements to infant mood, but not to caregiver mood. The findings show the feasibility of longitudinal EMA (retention: 92%; EMA response rate: 74%) of infants and the potential of longer-term and higher-intensity music enrichment interventions to improve health in infancy."
Ecological Momentary Assessment Reveals Causal Effects of Music Enrichment on Infant Mood (open access)
Will the little kid become the next Whitney Houston or Michael Jackson?
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