Factor analytic study of irrational beliefs
| Autor: | Rebecca H. Jacobsen, Arthur S. Tamkin, Lee Hyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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Adult
Male Personality Inventory Psychometrics 050109 social psychology Models Psychological Thinking Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory MMPI Internal consistency Schema (psychology) Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology California Psychological Inventory 05 social sciences Beck Depression Inventory Discriminant validity 050301 education Cognition Middle Aged Irrational number Psychology Factor Analysis Statistical 0503 education Social psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological reports. 63(3) |
| ISSN: | 0033-2941 |
| Popis: | This study investigated the validity of the Rational-Emotive Therapy construct of irrational beliefs and provided discriminant validity for a test of irrational beliefs, the Idea Inventory. 216 male psychiatric inpatients from a large medical center were administered a battery of psychological measures. These included the Idea Inventory, the MMPI, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Hooper Visual Organization Test, and the Shipley Institute of Living Scale. The Idea Inventory is a 33-item scale assessing the 11 irrational beliefs of Ellis's RET schema. Correlations showed that there is adequate internal consistency among the 11 subscales of the Idea Inventory and that there were 73 of 110 significant coefficients between this scale and the MMPI. Only a small amount of common variance, however, is accounted for. Most importantly, a factor analysis using all of the scales yielded five factors. The first factor included the scales of the Idea Inventory exclusively, with the MMPI and cognitive scales loading on other factors. Discussion centered on the validity of the Idea Inventory and on the independence of irrational beliefs and psychopathology. |
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