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The irrational beliefs test: Its relationship with cognitive‐behavioral traits and depression
Author(s) -
Cash Thomas F.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198411)40:6<1399::aid-jclp2270400621>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - irrationality , psychology , locus of control , cognition , assertion , rationality , irrational number , developmental psychology , schema (genetic algorithms) , intrapersonal communication , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , interpersonal communication , geometry , mathematics , machine learning , political science , computer science , law , programming language
A number of theorists have maintained that cognitive events such as irrational beliefs mediate various affective and behavioral disorders. Jones' (1968) Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT) is a prominent self‐report instrument that assesses dispositional rationality‐irrationality with respect to 10 beliefs proposed by Ellis. The present study with a nonclinical sample of female college students ( N = 114) evaluated the relationships among the IBT, locus of control, cognitive set for success and failure, interpersonal assertion, and depression. As predicted, irrationality on the IBT and on several of its specific‐belief components was related significantly to externality, negative cognitive set, unassertiveness, and self‐reported depressive symptomatology. Multiple regression analyses indicated that locus of control, irrationality, and cognitive set predicted assertion and that locus of control and irrationality predicted depression.