REVIEW article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Performance Science
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1617097
This article is part of the Research TopicThe Drive to Thrive: Nurturing Growth, Facilitating Resilience, and Learning From Nature for the Wellbeing of Artists and AthletesView all articles
The Intervention of Music Education on Adolescents' Subjective Well-Being from the Perspective of Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Review Based on Literature from 2000 to 2024
Provisionally accepted
- 1Shandong University of Arts, Jinan, Shandong, China
- 2Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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With the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda elevating Good Health and Well-Being (SDG 3) and Quality Education (SDG 4) to global priorities, music education, by virtue of its cross-cultural character and emotional resonance, is increasingly recognized as a potential pathway for fostering adolescents’ sustainable development competencies. Seventy-six core publications were retrieved from the Web of Science, MEDLINE, and ProQuest databases, and bibliometric and knowledge-mapping analyses were conducted using CiteSpace and VOSviewer. The field’s trajectory was deconstructed along three dimensions: temporal (annual publication output and author contribution levels), spatial (national participation and institutional collaboration density), and content (high-frequency keyword clustering and evolution of emerging themes). Findings reveal a two-stage “hiatus–surge” pattern in publication trends; the emergence of a collaborative network among core authors, albeit with an imbalanced geographic distribution dominated by North America and Europe; and five principal thematic clusters following a three-stage spiral progression—from targeted education interventions for special groups, through general adolescent development, to professional public-health services. Through a sustainable development–oriented, multidimensional evaluation framework and a standardized literature-review paradigm, multifaceted mechanisms by which music education enhances adolescents’ subjective well-being are uncovered, and evidence-based recommendations for sustainable education reform are provided. (PROSPERO Registration ID: CRD420251030162).
Keywords: music education1, sustainable development2, Psychology 3, Adolescent4, well-being5
Received: 23 Apr 2025; Accepted: 29 May 2025.
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* Correspondence: Weijia Yang, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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