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Dispositional Mindfulness, COVID-19 Burnout, and Life Satisfaction: Examining Longitudinal Mediation
AbstractThe associations among the dispositional mindfulness, COVID-19 burnout, and life satisfaction has been examined in cross-sectional studies. However, the fact that these variables were not considered together in any longitudinal research created a gap in the literature. The present study used a longitudinal design to examine whether COVID-19 burnout mediated the association between dispositional mindfulness and life satisfaction in a Turkish sample. In order to overcome the severe limitations of examining mediation with cross-sectional data, an autoregressive analysis of cross-lagged panel model for a half-longitudi...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - August 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Ego Resilience and College Student Psychological Well-Being After the Apex of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Effect of Irrational and Rational Beliefs
In this study, 532 young adults residing in Turkey participated, with an age range of 18 to 54 years and a mean age of 23 years (standard deviation = 4.08). The sam ple consisted of 358 female (67.3%) and 174 male (32.7%). The study results showed that coronavirus-related stressors had significant predictive effects on rational and irrational beliefs and ego resilience. Furthermore, stressors predicted ego resilience through rational and irrational beliefs, and beliefs mediated this association. The mediation results finally reported that ego resilience and irrational beliefs mediated the link between stressors and psy...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - July 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Cross-Cultural Replication of Fear About Guilt as the Secondary Emotion Hypothesis Across with and without Clinical OCD Samples: The Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of Fear of Guilt Scale
AbstractFear of guilt is a variation of the secondary emotion or meta-emotional disturbance that can transform nonclinical emotions into emotional disturbance or make it worse. The purpose of the present study was to explore the psychometric properties of the Persian version of fear about guilt scale and to examine the role of fear of guilt (as a secondary emotion) and guilt as a primary emotion across samples with and without a clinical OCD (N = 727,F = 67%;MeanAge = 26.76). The two-factor model (punishment and harm prevention) was confirmed and demonstrated measurement invariance with acceptable reliability ...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - July 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Decoding Unconditional Self-Acceptance: A Qualitative Report
AbstractUnconditional self-acceptance (USA) is a philosophy practiced to avoid the consequences of self-esteem in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). It is considered to be one of the determinants of psychological wellbeing. Despite its importance, it is one of the least studied constructs in psychological research. The literature on USA is focused on examining its relationship with various psychological symptoms and in relation to other psychotherapeutic approaches. However, there is little research evidence to understand the construct. To fill this gap, the present study aims to bring more clarity to the existing d...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - July 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Contents and Characteristics of Mental Imagery and their Association with Emotional Intensity in Adolescents: A Pilot Study
AbstractThe contents and characteristics of mental imagery (MI) have been investigated with respect to a few mental disorders, but not yet in healthy samples. In adults, it was found that characteristics like the vividness and perspective of MI might be associated with emotions and emotional distress, a matter which needs to be examined in youths. A sample of 80 adolescents (14 –20 years; 75.3% female) completed a web-based quasi-experimental design about the contents, and characteristics (frequency, vividness, perspective, controllability) of spontaneous positive and negative MI and emotional distress and emotions, as w...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Home-based Approach to Reduce Test Anxiety Using a Combination of Methods: A Randomized Controlled Trial
AbstractIncreasing number of students struggle with test anxiety. Evidence based, online, affordable, and accessible solutions for test anxiety are scarce. The purpose of this study was to evaluate an online delivered, assisted intervention (REST-TA) in a randomized controlled trial.Participants (N  = 178) were recruited through a university course and were randomized into a treatment group and waitlist control group. The treatment group completed an 8-week program which consisted of relaxation, skill training and cognitive behavioral methods. Both treatment and control group filled out a battery of questionnaires (TAM...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - June 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Smartphone Addiction, Nomophobia, Depression, and Social Appearance Anxiety Among College Students: A Correlational Study
This study explored the relationships of smartphone addiction, nomophobia, depression, and social appearance anxiety among college students. A total of 473 college students v oluntarily participated in this study, including 286 male and 187 female. Data were collected to employ four instruments: nomophobia scale, smartphone addiction scale, social appearance anxiety scale and beck depression scale. This correlational study with the structural equation model revealed that nomophobia had a significant direct effect on smartphone addiction, social appearance anxiety had a significant direct effect on smartphone addiction and ...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - June 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Psychological Factors Among Students: A Meta-Analytic Study
This study presents the results of a meta-analysis that looked at the efficacy of mindfulness-based intervention in students. Systematic literature search was carried out through PubMed, EBSCO, Proquest, Springer, and Google Scholar and identified 5461 studies. Retrieved 154 full-text articles and performed meta-analysis on 34 studies. The main variables identified to study the effectiveness of the intervention are anxiety, depression, mindfulness, stress, and self-compassion with their mean effect size as 0.48, 0.63, 0.83, 0.60, and 0.61 respectively. Heterogeneity was fairly high due to the wide range of studies. Signifi...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - June 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Role of Rumination in Anxiety Disorders
AbstractRumination has been studied extensively as a transdiagnostic variable. The present study explored the relationship between rumination, perfectionism, self-compassion, depression, and anxiety severity in forty-nine adults, with a primary diagnosis of an anxiety disorder. They were assessed on the Ruminative Response Scale of the Response Style Questionnaire, Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale-Short form, Self-compassion scale, the Overall Anxiety Severity Scale, and the Beck Depression Inventory-II. Rumination was positively associated with all three dimensions of perfectionism, depression, and anxiety severity, a...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - June 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Childhood Adversity, Resilience, and Paranoia During the COVID-19 Outbreak. The Mediating Role of Irrational Beliefs and Affective Disturbance
In this study, we investigated two potential candidates: irrational beliefs and affective disturbance. Moreover, we investigated the potential moderating role of COVID-19 perceived stress in these associations. A community sample (N = 419,m age  = 27.32 years,SD = 8.98; 88.10% females) completed self-report measures. Results indicated that paranoia was significantly associated with CA and resilience (p <  .05), and both irrational beliefs and affective disturbance (i.e., depressive and anxiety symptoms) mediated the associations between CA and paranoia. Moreover, depressive and anxiety symptoms partially...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - May 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Academic Stress Among Rural Community Secondary School Economics Students: A Randomized Controlled Evaluation
This study evaluated the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on the academic stress of rural community secondary school economic students. The study adopted the pre-test, post-test randomized control trial experimental design. The economics academic stress questionnaire (EASQ) was used for data collection using 168 secondary school economics students sampled from rural community schools in Southeast Nigeria. The instrument was validated by three experts in the area of the study and the internal consistency reliability index of the items was estimated as 0.83 using the Cronbach Alpha method. A pre-treatment assessm...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - May 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Introduction to the Special Issue on the Application of Rational Emotive Behavior Theory and Practice to High-Performance Settings
AbstractIn this brief article, the editorial team for the special issue “The Application of REBT Theory and Practice to High-Performance Settings” offer an introduction to the topic. Herein, we introduce the area of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) within performance settings and give a brief overview of the papers included in the special issue. (Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy)
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - May 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Exploring the Mechanism of Subjective Social Status on Compulsive Shopping Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model of Self-compassion and Depression
AbstractThe present study aimed to explore the mediating role of depression in the relationship between subjective social status (SSS) and compulsive shopping behavior (CSB) and whether self-compassion (SC) played a moderating role in this model. The study was designed based on the cross-sectional method. The final sample includes 664 Vietnamese adults (Mage = 21.95,SD = 5.681 years). Participants completed an online survey, including questionnaires about SSS, CSB, depression, SC, and basic demographic information. First, the study results showed that SSS did not directly affect CSB (p >  .05, 95% CI includes ze...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - May 3, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

What were you Thinking? A Comparison of Rater Coding and word Counts for Content Analysis of Thought Samples in Depression
This study examined the convergence between two methods of thought content analysis, manual coding by trained raters and computer-generated word counts, in a sample of clinically depressed participants assessed before and after treatment. Automated word count programs have traditionally used longer narrative texts so their utility for shorter thought samples is uncertain. Aims were to evaluate their direct correspondence and to determine whether the two methods yield similar results in assessing change from pre- to post-treatment.  Thirty participants recorded in-the-moment thoughts during random phone-based signaling. Th...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - April 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Irrational Beliefs Among Competitive High School Student Athletes: Are they General or Context-Driven?
AbstractWhile student-athletes strive for high performance both athletically and academically, understanding the role of beliefs as it relates to objective measures of performance has not been readily studied (Turner and Barker in J Appl Sport Psychol 25:131 –147, 2013) and even less so among youth. This research examined if irrational beliefs that are context specific to performance settings (academic vs. athletic) are more predictive of academic and athletic performance than those more general irrational beliefs among 30 high-school student athlete basketball players. While both general and context-specific irrational ...
Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - April 17, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research