TABLE 4.

Parent reports of the purpose of listening to or making music during Covid-19.

	Agreementa		Covid-19 changeb
	M	SD	M	SD
Regulate my emotions/change mood or physical state	5.78	1.05	0.43***	0.84
Regulate my child’s emotions	5.66	0.97	0.64***	0.68
Socially connect with other adults not in my family	4.49	1.29	−0.30**	1.07
Socially connect with other adults in my family	4.90	1.26	0.16	0.90
Socially connect with my child/children	5.82	0.89	0.79***	0.80

^aAgreement: Parents expressed their agreement with each reason on a scale of 1 (completely disagree) to 7 (completely agree). ^bCovid-19 change: Parents expressed how much they currently used music for each reason compared to an average day before Covid-19 where −2 = much less, −1 = somewhat less, 0 = about the same, 1 = somewhat more, and 2 = much more. ** p < 0.001 and *** p < 0.0001.