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Marital Adjustment and Irrational Ideas *
Author(s) -
Eisenberg Joseph M.,
Zingle Harvey W.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1975.tb00072.x
Subject(s) - irrational number , emotive , psychology , perception , rational emotive behavior therapy , cognition , social psychology , marital therapy , orientation (vector space) , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , cognitive psychology , epistemology , psychiatry , mathematics , philosophy , geometry , neuroscience
This study involved an attempt to explore the relationship between irrational ideas and marital discord, as posited in Rational‐Emotive‐Therapy. The results supported the hypothesis that individuals who experience marital difficulties demonstrate higher degrees of irrational thinking than individuals who do not experience such difficulties. Additional findings were interpreted on the basis of differences between males and females with respect to cognitive and perceptual orientation.