Further Validation for a New Measure of Irrational Cognitions

Trexler, Larry D.; Karst, Thomas O.

doi:10.1080/00223891.1973.10119845

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“…For 52 persons, Jones (1968) reported test-retest reliability coefficient ranging from .67 to .87 for scales and .92 for full-scale over 24 hours. Trexler and Karst (1973) extended stability measures over two weeks. They reported coefficients ranging from .48 to .95 for subscales and .88 for full-scale for 12 subjects.…”

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Irrational Beliefs and Personality

Forman

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1978

Journal of Personality Assessment

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This study investigated the relationship between irrational beliefs and the nonpathological personality characteristics origence and intellectence described by Welsh (1972, 1975b). The Adjective Check List (ACL) and the Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT) were administered to 319 college students. Data were analyzed for the entire sample and for males and females separately. In each case, two combinations of scores yielding significant canonical correlation coefficients were produced. The results offer a refinement to Ellis' personality model and suggest that irrational beliefs are insufficient as indications of psychopathology.

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Irrational Beliefs and Personality

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1978

Journal of Personality Assessment

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“…Irrationality has been found to correlate consistently with measures of trait anxiety (LaPointe & Crandell, 1980;Lohr 8t Bonge, 1981) and test anxiety (Goldfried & Sobocinski, 1975;Trexler & Karst, 1973), but inconsistently with measures of speech anxiety (Goldfried & Sobocinski, 1975;Lohr & Rea, 1981) and social anxiety (Curran, Wallender, & Fischetti, 1980;Glass, Merluzzi, Biever, & Larsen, 1982;Goldfried & Sobocinski, 1975;Gormally, Sipps, Raphael, Edwin, & Varvil-Weld, I98 1;SuttonSimon & Goldfried, 1979). While only two studies have examined the association between the IBT and self-reported depressive symptomatology, both found the expected positive relationship (LaPointe & Crandell, 1980;Nelson, 1977).…”

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The irrational beliefs test: Its relationship with cognitive-behavioral traits and depression

Cash

1984

J. Clin. Psychol.

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A number of theorists have maintained that cognitive events such as irrational beliefs mediate various affective and behavioral disorders. Jones' (1968) Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT) is a prominent self‐report instrument that assesses dispositional rationality‐irrationality with respect to 10 beliefs proposed by Ellis. The present study with a nonclinical sample of female college students (N = 114) evaluated the relationships among the IBT, locus of control, cognitive set for success and failure, interpersonal assertion, and depression. As predicted, irrationality on the IBT and on several of its specific‐belief components was related significantly to externality, negative cognitive set, unassertiveness, and self‐reported depressive symptomatology. Multiple regression analyses indicated that locus of control, irrationality, and cognitive set predicted assertion and that locus of control and irrationality predicted depression.

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“…Furthermore, scales 1, 2, and 4 seemed to be parti cularly related to public-speaking anxiety. In the second of their studies, Trexler and Karst (1973) present additional data from their earlier (1972) experiment. For example, test-retest reliability of the IBT total scores, after a two-week delay, was ,88. and for in dividual scales, the range was from r = .48 to r = .95, with a mean of .80.…”

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“…One final observation from the Trexler and Karst (1973) studies is that the IBT correlated positively and significantly (p < .05) with a thirty-item "Personal…”

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A validation study of instruments designed to measure irrationality

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Further Validation for a New Measure of Irrational Cognitions

Cited by 23 publications

References 8 publications

Irrational Beliefs and Personality

Irrational Beliefs and Personality

The irrational beliefs test: Its relationship with cognitive-behavioral traits and depression

A validation study of instruments designed to measure irrationality

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