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Intensionality in the irrational beliefs‐intellectual performance relationship
Author(s) -
Prola Max
Publication year - 1988
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(198801)44:1<57::aid-jclp2270440112>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - psychology , irrational number , cognitive psychology , social psychology , mathematics , geometry
This study tested the hypothesis that certain semantic processes may be responsible for the previously observed inverse relationship between the endorsement of Ellis's irrational beliefs and measures of intellectual performance. The IS of Identity Scale, a measure of intensional thinking, was administered to 134 male and female entering college freshmen, along with a list of Ellis's irrational beliefs, the Developmental Test of Reading Skills, and locally constructed tests of writing and mathematics. A multipleregression analysis showed that irrationality uniquely accounted for 13% of reading variance ( p < 0.001) and none of the variance in the other variables. Intensionality was not associated uniquely with any of the variables and seemingly played no part in the irrationality‐intellectual performance relationship.