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The demographic section is the first thing you encounter after logging in with your access key. Before the questionnaire can assess your performance anxiety, it needs to understand who you are as a musician — your training history, your current role, and any health or lifestyle factors that could influence your results. These 15 questions establish that context and ensure your scores are interpreted correctly against your specific background.

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Purpose

The 15 demographic questions do not produce a scored result on their own. Instead, they supply the research framework that makes your Likert responses meaningful. Knowing, for example, whether you are a high school student or a twenty-year professional helps researchers understand why certain anxiety patterns appear, not just that they appear.
Your individual demographic responses are kept confidential. They contribute only to aggregate, anonymized research — no one reading the research data can link an answer back to a specific person or license key.

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How Answers Are Saved

When you click Next at the bottom of the demographic form, the page calls questionSubmit.php asynchronously via a jQuery $.post request. Each question label and your selected answer are paired and sent together. The server looks up the matching DemographicQuestion record by question text and writes your answer into the DemographicAnswer table under your license_id. You are then automatically redirected to the Likert section — no manual navigation required. 
DemographicAnswer
├── license_id               (FK → License.id)
├── demographic_question_id  (FK → DemographicQuestion.id)
└── answer                   VARCHAR(255)

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The 15 Questions

The questions below are listed in the order they appear on screen, along with their input type and the available options exactly as coded.
1

Gender

Input type: Radio buttons
Option
Male
Female
2

Age

Input type: Select dropdown
Option
17 and under
18–23
24–30
31–40
41–50
51–60
61–70
Over 70
3

Number of years studying primary voice/instrument

Input type: Select dropdown
Option
0–2
3–5
6–10
11–15
16–20
21–25
Over 25
4

Age when starting musical instruction of any kind

Input type: Select dropdown
Option
0–3
4–5
6–7
8–9
10–11
12–13
14–15
16–17
18–19
Over 20
5

Age when starting musical study of primary instrument

Input type: Select dropdown — same options as Question 4.This question is distinct from Question 4: it asks specifically about your primary instrument, which may be different from the first music instruction you ever received (e.g., general music class vs. beginning private lessons on your main instrument).
6

Are you currently (select one)

Input type: Select dropdown with 11 options. Selecting Other reveals a free-text field labelled “Please Specify.”
Option
High school student uncertain of future role of music in life
High school student looking toward career as a musician
Undergraduate music minor
Undergraduate music major
Masters music student
Doctoral music student
Amateur adult musician
Part-time professional musician
Full-time professional musician in early career stage
Full-time professional musician for at least ten years
Other (free-text field appears)
7

Primary voice type or instrument

Input type: Select dropdown
Option
Woodwind
Brass
Strings
Percussion
Keyboard
Vocalist
Conductor
8

Specific instrument or voice type

Input type: Free-text fieldEnter the exact name of your instrument or voice type (e.g., clarinet, mezzo-soprano, snare drum). This complements Question 7’s broad category with precision.
9

Number of professional performances given (approximate)

Input type: Select dropdown
Option
0–5
6–10
11–15
16–20
21–25
26–30
31–35
36–40
41–45
46–50
Over 50
10

Number of total performances given (approximate)

Input type: Select dropdown — includes performances at every level, not just professional engagements.
Option
0–5
6–10
11–20
21–30
31–40
41–50
51–60
61–70
71–80
81–90
91–100
Over 100
11

Do you have medical conditions impacting your ability to sing/play?

Input type: Radio buttons (Yes / No). Selecting Yes reveals a free-text field for the specific condition (e.g., long-term injury, asthma, TMJD).
Option
Yes (free-text field for condition appears)
No
12

Number of alcoholic drinks per month

Input type: Select dropdown
Option
0
1–5
6–10
11–20
21–30
31–40
41–50
Over 50
13

Use of any recreational drugs

Input type: Radio buttons
Option
Yes
No
14

Do you take any blood pressure or anxiety medication(s)?

Input type: Radio buttons
Option
Yes
No
15

Professional plan / career goals

Input type: Textarea (free-form, multi-line)Describe your musical goals and professional plans in your own words. This open-ended response gives researchers qualitative context that the other questions cannot capture.

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Conditional Fields

Two questions reveal hidden sub-fields based on your selection:

Question 6 — Current Role

Choosing Other from the dropdown reveals a “Please Specify” text input. The custom text is appended to the stored answer value so the full detail is preserved.

Question 11 — Medical Conditions

Answering Yes reveals a “Specific medical condition” text input. Your condition description is combined with the “Yes” answer before being stored.

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What Happens Next

After the form is submitted, your browser is automatically directed to /likert/, where the main 157-question Likert scale section begins. The demographic answers are already saved at that point — you do not need to go back or resubmit anything.

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