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Irrational beliefs, attitudes about competition, and splitting
Author(s) -
Watson P.J.,
Morris Ronald J.,
Miller Liv
Publication year - 2001
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/jclp.1016
Subject(s) - psychology , irrational number , rationality , social psychology , rational emotive behavior therapy , counterintuitive , test (biology) , scale (ratio) , competition (biology) , epistemology , psychiatry , cognition , paleontology , ecology , philosophy , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , biology
Rational–Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) theoretically promotes actualization of both individualistic and social‐oriented potentials. In a test of this assumption, the Belief Scale and subscales from the Survey of Personal Beliefs served as measures of what REBT presumes to be pathogenic irrationalities. These measures were correlated with the Hypercompetitive Attitude Scale (HCAS), the Personal Development Competitive Attitude Scale (PDCAS), factors from the Splitting Index, and self‐esteem. Results for the HCAS and Self‐Splitting supported the REBT claim about individualistic self‐actualization. Mostly nonsignificant and a few counterintuitive linkages were observed for irrational beliefs with the PDCAS, Family‐Splitting, and Other‐Splitting, and these data suggested that REBT may be less successful in capturing the “rationality” of a social‐oriented self‐actualization. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 57: 343–354, 2001.