In:
Psychological Reports, SAGE Publications, Vol. 63, No. 3 ( 1988-12), p. 803-809
Kurzfassung:
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.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0033-2941
,
1558-691X
DOI:
10.2466/pr0.1988.63.3.803
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
SAGE Publications
Publikationsdatum:
1988
ZDB Id:
2066930-6
SSG:
5,2
