Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy 
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This study examined self-reported gender differences in a clinical sample of individuals referred for concerns about dysfunctional anger on measures of anger and aggression. The sample consisted of adults aged 18 years or over (N = 543; 90 [17%] women and 453 [83%] men) who presented at an outpatient anger clinic for treatment of their dysfunctional anger between 2003 and 2014. We found that women in the psychiatric outpatient sample significantly outscored men on many of the anger variables and reported similar levels of aggression, which contradicts previous reports in nonclinical populations. These results are of ...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - April 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy on Infertility Stress, General Health, and Negative Cognitions: A Randomized Controlled Trial
This study determined the effect of a cognitive behavioral group therapy (CBGT) program administered to infertile women on infertility-related stress, depressive and anxious thoughts, and general health state. A randomized controlled design was used for this study. The study was conducted with 107 infertile women: 55 in the experimental group and 52 in the control group. The CBGT was administered to the experimental group for 11 weeks. The pretest, posttest, and trimester follow-up results of this group were compared with those of the control group. The experimental group’s Fertility Problem Inventory pretest mean scor...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - April 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Rational Emotive Digital Storytelling Therapy for Improving HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Risk Perception Among Schoolchildren: A Group Randomized Trial
This study examined the effectiveness of rational emotive digital storytelling therapy (REDStory) on HIV/AIDS knowledge and risk perception among Nigerian schoolchildren. The design of the study was a group randomized trial design. A total of eighty schoolchildren participated in the study. For the collection of data, we utilized the HIV Knowledge Questionnaire (Carey and Schroder in AIDS Educ Prev 14:174 –184,2002) and the Perceived Risk of HIV Scale (Napper et al. in AIDS Behav 16(40):1075 –1083,2012). To analyze the collected data, we employed ANOVA with repeated-measures andt test statistics. The study post-treatme...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - April 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dysfunctional Beliefs and Personality Traits
This study examined the pattern of associations between dimensions of personality dysfunction, dysfunctional beliefs, and adverse emotional outcomes. We recruited two samples of undergraduates (n = 167; n = 104). Dysfunctional beliefs showed positive correlations with pathological personality dimensions Negative Emotionality, Introversion, and Psychoticism, and negative correlations with Big Five dimensions of Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, Openness, and Conscientiousness. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that dysfunctional beliefs are predictive of adverse emotional outcomes above and beyond dimen...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - March 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Conceptual Confusion in Psychological Therapy: Towards a Taxonomy of Therapies
AbstractThis paper addresses confusion apparent in the discussion of psychological therapies. Such confusion relates to the differentiation, or lack of, of therapy constructs across categorical levels. Conceptual confusion is identified in terms of an apparent failure to differentiate theoretical frameworks of human functioning, specific therapy packages, and individual techniques from one another. Confusing to which level various concepts belong results in misunderstandings in psychological research, practice and education. The paper further sets out to provide a framework to help delineate these conceptual levels and to ...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Procrastination and Rational/Irrational Beliefs: A Moderated Mediation Model
AbstractThe present study focuses on the integrated effect of self-doubt, rational and irrational beliefs, and fear of failure on procrastination in a sample of Turkish undergraduate students (N = 293). The results confirm prior evidence indicating that self-doubt, fear of failure, and rational/irrational beliefs were important predictors of procrastination. The results show that (a) both self-doubt and irrational beliefs have direct and interactive effects on fear of failure, (b) fear of failure mediates the relationship between self-doubt and procrastination, (c) rational beliefs moderated the predictive effect of fe...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - February 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Our Memories of Maxie C. Maultsby Jr. 1932 –2016
This article is the first in a series about RBT and its founder. (Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy)
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - December 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
An Investigation of Sequencing Effects in Combining Cognitive Questioning and Mindful Acceptance
AbstractCognitive-behavioral treatments assume that the mechanisms of change depend on the assessment and questioning of biased beliefs. In contrast, recent developments have emphasized mindful acceptance interventions, in which clients allow thoughts to come and go without questioning them. In order to discuss therapeutic efficacy difference in emotional disorders, we explored the possible normalizing effects of cognitive questioning and mindful acceptance on sympathetic reactivity aroused by recall tasks. We compared the effects of different sequencing of cognitive questioning and mindful acceptance on emotional distress...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - December 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Early Maladaptive Schemas and Cognitive-Behavioral Aspect of Anger: Schema Model Perspective
This study examined the relationships between early maladaptive schemas (EMSs), anger, and aggression among 86 adult individuals in Anger therapy group (n = 24), Control group (n = 29) and Outpatients group (n = 33). The results indicated that the mistrust/abuse schema among five schemas in disconnection/rejection domain, and the entitlement/grandiosity schema among two schemas in impaired limits domain were the strongest predictors of an ger and aggression. The next schemas that were associated or predicted anger and aggression and might be considered in therapy are insufficient self-control, abandonment, emo...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - November 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
When is Unconditional Self-Acceptance a Better Predictor of Mental Health than Self-Esteem?
This study aimed to compare USA and SE as predictors of mental health when positive and negative affectivity traits are included in the same model. Indicators of mental health were subjective well-being, a state of positive and negative affect, and state of anxiety and depression. The sample consisted of 268 university students. The following instruments were used: Big five plus two (Smederevac et al. in Velikih pet plus dva: Primena i nterpretacija [Big Five Plus Two: Manual for administration and interpretation], Centar za primenjenu psihologiju, Beograd,2010), Unconditional Self-Acceptance Questionnaire (Chamberlain and...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - November 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Clinical Strategy to Strengthen the Connection Between Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior: From Philosophical Principles to Psychotherapy Practice
AbstractHelping clients gain insight into the ways in which their thinking influences the expression of emotional distress and maladaptive behavior is an important goal of CBT-based psychotherapies. However, efforts to establish this insight into the connection between dysfunctional beliefs and the consequences of having them (i.e., B –C connection) are often met with resistance. To address this issue in practice, therapists can draw upon certain existential principles underpinning CBT theory. More specifically, practitioners can use the concepts of existential freedom and responsibility, contained in the rational-humani...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - November 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Role of the Belief System for Anger Management of Couples with Anger and Aggression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective
AbstractThe aim of the present study was to understand the role of the belief system in cognitive-behavioral anger management therapy for couples. Severe anger and aggression causes discomfort that may disturb the marital and interpersonal relationship, and overall functioning of the individual. Participants of the study were 14 couples who were referred for treatment of anger and aggression. The results of univariate test of within-subjects indicate low to moderate effect size of cognitive behavioral intervention for the total score of four measures as well as the subscales. Cognitive-behavioral couple therapy was effecti...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - October 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Development and Validation of the Thai-Translated Irrational Performance Beliefs Inventory (T-iPBI)
AbstractOne of the most commonly employed cognitive-behavioural approaches to psychotherapy is rational-emotive behaviour therapy, but researchers have been troubled by some of the limitations of irrational beliefs psychometrics. As a result, Turner et al. (Eur J Psychol Assess 34:174 –180,2018a.https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000314) developed the Irrational Performance Beliefs Inventory (iPBI), a novel measure of irrational beliefs for use within performance domains. However, the linguistic and cross-cultural adaptation of the iPBI into other languages is necessary for its multinational and multicultural use. The pu...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - October 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Fear of Negative Evaluation and Communication Apprehension: The Moderating Role of Communicative Competence and Extraversion Personality Trait in Pakistani Academia
This study examines the moderating role of communicative competence and extraversion personality traits on the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and communication apprehension in Pakistani academics teaching in their second (English) language. One hundred and twenty academics (aged 25 –60) completed a demographic information sheet, the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Questionnaire (BFNE-11) (Leary in Pers Soc Psychol Bull 9:371–376,1983), the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24) (McCroskey in An introduction to rhetorical communication, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs,1982), the Self...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - October 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
