Relationship Between Unhappy Musicians, Resistance Toward Innovation and Uncreative Music Products: Psychological Security as Moderator

Wei Liang; Shamim Akhter; Tribhuwan Kumar

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.922404

Relationship Between Unhappy Musicians, Resistance Toward Innovation and Uncreative Music Products: Psychological Security as Moderator

Front Psychol. 2022 Jun 15:13:922404. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.922404. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Wei Liang¹, Shamim Akhter², Tribhuwan Kumar³

Affiliations

¹ Chinese Instruments Department, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Hangzhou, China.
² School of Languages, Civilisation and Philosophy, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Changlun, Malaysia.
³ College of Science and Humanities at Sulail, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Recently, uncreative music products have become a global issue due to the unhappy musicians and resistance to innovation that needs researchers' focus. This article explores the impact of unhappy musicians and resistance to innovation on uncreative music products in Malaysia. This article also investigates the moderating role of psychological security among the relationships of unhappy musicians, resistance to innovation, and uncreative music products in Malaysia. This study has applied the questionnaire method to gather the primary data from the selected respondents. The researchers have also applied the smart-PLS to check the nexus among constructs and test the hypotheses. The results revealed that unhappy musicians and resistance to innovation have a significant and positive linkage with uncreative music products in Malaysia. The results also revealed that psychological security significantly moderates the linkage among unhappy musicians, resistance to innovation, and uncreative music products in Malaysia. Thus, this study guides the regulators to develop the regulations to reduce the unhappiness among musicians and motivates the regulators to adopt innovation to increase the creative music product in Malaysia.

Keywords: Malaysia; music learning institutions; psychological security; resistance to innovation; smart-PLS; uncreative music products; unhappy musicians.