Research note: Philosophical worldview determines attitudes toward using background music before, during, and after counselling

Author(s): Johnson, John A.

Journal/Book: Psychology of Music. 1991; 19: 159-163.

Abstract: Examined the degree to which counselors' philosophical worldviews affected their attitudes toward using background music and natural sounds during counseling. 72 counselors (aged 24-60 yrs) rated 5 musical selections and recordings of birdsongs and a waterfall on perceived usefulness as background music/sound during a counseling session and indicated their likelihood of using each selection. Scales derived from the ratings correlated positively with scores from the Organicism-Mechanism Paradigm Inventory, indicating that organismically inclined counselors were more likely to use background music/sounds in their practice than were mechanistically inclined counselors. Organicists were described as more imaginative, creative, and unorthodox, whereas mechanists were described as more down-to-earth, ordinary, and conservative.

Note: philosophical world view; attitudes toward use of background music & natural sounds before or during or after counseling; 24 60 yr old counseling psychologists

Keyword(s): Counselor attitudes; counseling psychologists; world view; psychotherapeutic techniques; music ; auditory stimulation; adulthood

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