The purposes of this study were not only to examine relations between
personality traits and emotion regulation strategies and burnout of music
therapists, but also investigate the effects of personality traits and emotion
regulation strategies on burnout of them. For those purposes, the investigator
conducted a survey with 103 music therapists across the nation and analyzed
the responses. The research findings were as follows: first, there were no
significant differences in the general characteristics(age, marital status) of
music therapists and some of their professional characteristics, namely
therapist career, place of work, type of work, and number of sessions.
Significant differences were found in the kinds of certificate. Secondly, the
study examined relations between their personality traits and burnout and
found that there were positive correlations between neurosis and burnout and
negative correlations between extroversion, affinity, and conscientiousness and
burnout. Thirdly, with regard to the relations between emotion regulation
strategies and burnout, there were negative correlations between the cognitive,
behavioral, and experiential strategies and burnout. When the subfactors were
considered, burnout had positive correlations with thinking negatively, thinking
of criticizing others, expressing negative emotions to others, binge eating, and
doing activities of addiction potential. Finally, the study looked into the effects
of personality traits and emotion regulation strategies on burnout and found
that they had 60.3% of explanatory power with statistical significance.
Neurosis had the biggest influence on burnout, being followed by thinking
negatively, doing activities for diversion, binge eating, expressing emotions
and getting sympathy, and thinking of criticizing others in the order.