ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of music programs for young children’s development and provide basic resources to develop music programs and applications for young children. The data for the analysis were 46 journals including published doctoral dissertations and KCI journals from 2001 to 2017. The results were the following. First, the effect size was 1.45, which is statistically significant. Second, the research about social development among music programs was the largest, and the order of effect sizes in decreasing order was emotion development, social development, physical development, creative development, and language development. Third, the research about integration activities in music areas among music programs was the largest,and the order of effect sizes in decreasing order was instrumental activities, physical expression activities, integration in the music area, musical drama activities, and listening activities. Fourth, the effect size of music programs was heterogeneous so the moderate effect was analyzed. The moderate effect was higher when the program was applied under 8 times rather than 9~16, over 17 times. The results provided that music programs had positive effects on young children and provided the basic resources for further research about music programs.

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