The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among the subjective well-being, emotional bond, and cognitive emotional regulation strategies of music therapist, andto verify the mediating effect of the cognitive emotional regulation strateg...
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among the subjective well-being, emotional bond, and cognitive emotional regulation strategies of music therapist, andto verify the mediating effect of the cognitive emotional regulation strategies in the effect of the subjective well-being on the formation of emotional bond. For this study, the emotional bond, subjective well-being, cognitive emotional regulation strategies, and general nature were measured targeting 103 music therapists over master’s degree who majored in music therapy, and the result of study is as follows. First, as a result of verifying the difference of the emotional bond level following the general nature of the music therapist, the difference was shown in the level of the emotional bond according to the music therapy approach philosophy and the job satisfaction. When it came to the psychodynamics approach philosophy, it was confirmed the level of emotional bond was highest and they experienced the high emotional bond when the job satisfaction was high. Second, as a result of verifying the difference of the subjective well-being level following the general nature of the music therapists, it was shown the difference appeared in the level of the subjective well-being according to the job satisfaction. That is, it was confirmed the higher the job satisfaction was the higher the subjective well-being was. Third, as a result of verifying the correlation among each variable, the subjective well-being and emotional bond, adaptive strategies and subjective well-being, adaptive strategies and emotional bond showed a positive correlation, and subjective well-being and maladaptive strategies, emotional bond and maladaptive strategies showed a negative correlation. Fourth, as a result of verifying the influence among each variable, it was revealed the subjective well-being had a significant positive effect on the emotional bond and the adaptive strategies, and had a significant negative effect on the ‘blaming other’ and ‘catastrophizing’ among sub-factors of the maladaptive strategies. Also, when it came to the effect of the cognitive emotional regulation strategies on the emotional bond, the adaptive strategies and ‘refocusing on planning’ and ‘positive reappraisal’ among the sub-factors of the adaptive strategy had a significant positive effect on the emotional bond, and the maladaptive strategy and ‘blaming other’ and ‘catastrophizing’ among the sub-factors of the maladaptive strategy had a significant negative effect on the emotional bond. Fifth, as a result of verifying the mediating effect of cognitive emotional regulation strategies, it was revealed the adaptive strategy, maladaptive strategy, ‘putting into perspective’, ‘refocusing on planning’, ‘acceptance’, ‘positive reappraisal’, ‘blaming other’, and ‘catastrophizing’ showed a partial mediating effect in the effect on the subjective well-being and forming the emotional bond. In conclusion, in this study, it was possible to confirm the partial mediating effect of the cognitive emotional regulation strategies in the effect of the music therapists’subjective well-being on the formation of emotional bond. This study is significant in having arranged the possibility that music therapist could contribute to forming the emotional bond with the client by examining the concrete effect of the cognitive emotional regulation strategies.