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Data Sheet 1_Trusting self-evaluation: predicting music and language performance from subjective ratings.pdf Christine Groß (3699436) Markus Christiner (12291911) Applied Psychology cross-domain associations language ability metacognition musicality music-language relationship objective performance self-assessment self-evaluation Introduction<p>Subjective self-evaluation is frequently used to assess perceived musical and linguistic competence, but the extent to which such ratings correspond to objectively measured performance, particularly across domains, remains unclear.</p>Methods<p>A total of 104 participants completed objective music tasks assessing singing, melodic discrimination, mistuning perception, and beat perception; language tasks assessing expressive reading, speech imitation, and auditory phonological pattern recognition; and multi-item self-evaluation scales for both domains. Associations were examined using correlation analyses, hierarchical regression models, and Bland-Altman analyses.</p>Results<p>Subjective self-evaluation and objective performance were moderately associated within both domains but were not interchangeable. Objective music and language performance predicted one another more strongly than cross-domain self-evaluations. Within-domain self-evaluation contributed additional variance to the corresponding performance models. Bland-Altman analyses indicated negligible mean bias at the group level but substantial individual disagreement.</p>Discussion<p>Subjective self-evaluation and objective performance capture complementary but theoretically distinct aspects of musical and linguistic ability. Objective assessment therefore remains necessary when performance itself is the target, whereas self-evaluation provides additional information about perceived competence. Comparable cross-domain association patterns are consistent with partly shared mechanisms across music and language.</p> 2026-09-21T04:28:50Z Dataset Dataset 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1899488.s002 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_Sheet_1_Trusting_self-evaluation_predicting_music_and_language_performance_from_subjective_ratings_pdf/33948958 CC BY 4.0