Dysfunctional beliefs and marital conflict in distressed and non-distressed married inidviduals

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: To test the hypothesis that the irrational evaluative beliefs, postulated by Rational-EmotiveBehaviour Therapy, are related to marital conflict, 17 individuals fromdistressed marriages and 20 individuals from non-distressed marriages participated in theArticulated Thoughts during Simulated Situations procedure. Four scenes, representingdifferent dimensions of marital conflict, were used. The results showed that, on all thescenes, the distressed group showed significantly more irrational cognitions than thenon-distressed group, while the latter group showed significantly more positive thoughtsthan the distressed group. The results also showed that the non-distressed groupdisplayed significantly more positive than negative thoughts for all the conflict scenescombined. However, no significant difference between positive and negative thoughtswas found for the distressed group

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University