Undergraduate Empathy and Aesthetic Sensitivity Scores from Music Course Intervention

208 undergraduates from two Chinese universities participated in an 8-week quasi-experiment measuring aesthetic sensitivity and empathy before and after a music aesthetic education course. The dataset supports multilevel linear modeling analyses used to test for mediation effects. The study was authored by Mingyang Xia and the data was shared on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Test mediation models where changes in aesthetic sensitivity (AS) scores explain changes in empathy scores between pre-test (T0) and post-test (T1) measurements.
• Apply multilevel linear modeling to account for class nesting structure when analyzing empathy gains within the intervention group.
• Use inverse probability weighting or ANCOVA on pre-post scores to perform robustness checks for the primary quasi-experimental findings.
• Analyze the association between AS and empathy scores across all 208 participant records to validate the hypothesized positive relationship.

Strengths

• Contains pre- and post-test measurements for 208 individual participants.
• Data structure is designed for multilevel analysis to account for the two intact class clusters.
• Study design includes specific robustness checks (ANCOVA, inverse probability weighting) documented in the methodology.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 7.8 KB, indicating limited raw data or summary statistics rather than a full participant-level dataset.
• Study uses only two class clusters, limiting the statistical power of the multilevel model.
• All measures are self-reported, which may introduce bias.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Mingyang Xia.

Collection Method

Data collected via pre-test and post-test questionnaires administered during an 8-week quasi-experimental course intervention.

Time Range

Covers an 8-week intervention period, with specific measurement times (T0, T1).

Freshness

Data reflects a study last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Data collected from undergraduates at two universities in China.