Music therapy career aptitude and generalized self-efficacy in music therapy students.

Background: While the Music Therapy Career Aptitude Test (MTCAT) provides a measure of student aptitude, measures of perceived self-efficacy may provide additional information about a students' suitability for a music therapy career.

Objective: As a first step in determining whether future studies examining combined scores from the MTCAT and the Generalized Self-Efficacy (GSE) scale would be useful to help predict academic success in music therapy, we explored the internal reliability of these two measures in a sample of undergraduate students, and the relationship (concurrent validity) of the measures to one another.

Methods: Eighty undergraduate music therapy students (14 male; 66 female) completed the MTCAT and GSE.