Abstract
The present study examined the degree to which counsellors' philosophical worldviews affect their attitudes toward using background music and natural sounds before, during, and after counselling. Seventy-two counsellors (35 male, 37 female) rated excerpts of five musical selections and recordings of birdsongs and a waterfall on perceived usefulness as background music/sound before, during, or after a counselling session and indicated their likelihood of using each selection. Factor-analytically derived scales from the ratings correlated positively with scores from the Organicism-Mechanism Paradigm Inventory (OMPI; Johnson et al., 1988), indicating that organismically inclined counsellors are more likely to use background music/sounds in their practice than are mechanistically inclined counsellors.
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