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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Irrational Food Beliefs Scale: Validation of the Italian Version in Patients with Obesity	20
An Exploratory Analysis of Vengeful Episodes in Prisoners	19
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Does the Emotion Dysregulation Model Predict Symptoms Beyond the Metacognitive Model?	18
Irrational Romantic Relationship Beliefs and Self-silencing: Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation	17
Self-critical Rumination and Associated Metacognitions as Mediators of the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Self-esteem	14
The Influence of Core Self-Evaluation, Mindfulness, and Rumination on Emotional Distress	14
Cognitive appraisal, Coping, Stress and Fear Contracting Covid-19 in Working People in Pakistan	12
Problematic Internet use in Adults: The Role of Happiness, Psychological Resilience, Dispositional Hope, and Self-control and Self-management	12
Validating the Diathesis–Stress Model Based Case Conceptualization Procedure in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies: The LIBET (Life Themes and Semi-Adaptive Plans—Implications of Biased Beliefs, Elicitati	12
The Psychological Impact of Competitive Sports Participation on Adolescent Athletes: an Analysis of Coping Mechanisms and Performance Outcomes	12
A Comparison Between Self-compassion and Unconditional Self-acceptance: Interventions on Self-blame, Empathy, Shame-, Guilt-Proneness, and Performance	11
REBT with Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	11
Relationships Between School Bullying and Frustration Intolerance Beliefs in Adolescence: A Gender-Specific Analysis	11
Emotion Dysregulation in Adolescents Exhibiting Depression with Elevated Anxiety: Prevalence and Associated Factors	11
The Jordanian Version of the Thought Control Questionnaire Insomnia-Revised (TCQI-R)	11
Rumination and Co-Rumination and their Associations with Alcohol-Related Problems and Depressive Symptoms among College Students	11
Dispositional Mindfulness, COVID-19 Burnout, and Life Satisfaction: Examining Longitudinal Mediation	11
Financial Risk Tolerance and Financial Risk Attitudes of Commercial Bank Customers and the Role of REBT-Based Business Coaching: Implications for Accounting Research	10
Rumination Mediates the Relationship Between Childhood Traumas with Cognitive Defusion, Acceptance, and Emotion Regulation: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study	10
Correction: An Emotional Skills Intervention for Elementary Children with Autism in China: A Pilot Study	10
The Experience of Being Emotionally Maltreated and Self-regulatory Strategies in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: Pathways to Depressive Symptoms	10
The Effect of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy on Post-Traumatic Depression in Flood Victims	9
The ABC Model of Positive Feelings: A Preliminary Test	8
Familial Thinking Patterns: Rational and Irrational Beliefs During a Life Transition	8
Inferred Exposure and Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy with Older Patients	8

A Cross-Cultural Replication of Fear About Guilt as the Secondary Emotion Hypothesis Across with and without Clinical OCD Samples: The Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of Fear of Guilt S	7
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Stress Reduction among Primary Education Pupils in Nigeria	7
The Role of Rumination in Anxiety Disorders	6
Mediating Effects of Resilience Between Mindfulness, Self-compassion, and Psychological Distress in a Longitudinal Study	6
Correction to: The Combined Contribution of Fear and Perceived Danger of COVID 19 and Metacognitions to Anxiety Levels during the COVID 19 Pandemic	6
Efficacy of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy on Depression Among Children with Learning Disabilities: Implications for Evaluation in Science Teaching	6
Self-compassion and Students' Well-Being Among Vietnamese Students: Chain Mediation Effect of Narcissism and Anxiety	5
Psychometric Properties of the European Portuguese Adaptation of the Insomnia Catastrophizing Scale (ICS)	5
Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Academic Stress Among Rural Community Secondary School Economics Students: A Randomized Controlled Evaluation	5
COVID-19 Related Negative Life Events and Psychological Distress: The Role of Emotion and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies	5
Rethinking Leahy’s Emotional Schema Scale (LESS): Results from the Portuguese Adaptation of the LESS	5
Predictors of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Mental Health Professionals: Trauma History, Self-Compassion, Emotional Intelligence	5
Correction to: Preliminary Validation of the self-report Measure Assessing Experiences of Negative Independent and Dependent Event Frequency in Japanese University Students	5
Proposing a Measurement Model of REBT and Applying It to the Assessment of Well-Being and Happiness in Patients with Tension-Type Headaches	5
Health-Related Cognitions and Metacognitions Indirectly Contribute to the Relationships Between Impulsivity, Fear of COVID-19, and Cyberchondria	5
Introducing Dialectical Core Schemas Theory through Mediation Models	5
Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Psychological Factors Among Students: A Meta-Analytic Study	5
What were you Thinking? A Comparison of Rater Coding and word Counts for Content Analysis of Thought Samples in Depression	5
How Do Cognition and Emotion Regulation Strategies and Intolerance of Uncertainty Predict the Severity of Fatigue and Daily Life Activities of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients?	5
Treating the Psychological Distress in Children with Adventitious Blindness	5
The Relationship Between Mindfulness and Happiness in Student-Athletes: The Role of Self-Compassion—Mediator or Moderator?	4
Social Support and Flourishing Among Adolescents: The Multiple Mediating Roles of Self-Compassion and Sense of Coherence	4
Characteristics of Patients in Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) Who Have Difficulties in Emotion Regulation	4
Exploring Factor and Correlational Analysis of the Portuguese Version of the Unconditional Self-acceptance Questionnaire-Revised	4
Stress Management Among Science and Social Science Educators Within Open and Distance Learning Centers Using Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Implication for Curriculum and Educational Evaluators	4
Examining Irrational Happiness Beliefs within an Adaptation-Continuum Model of Personality and Coping	4
Premenstrual Syndrome: The Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies and Trait Meta-Mood	4
Investigation of the Turkish Psychometric Properties of Bedtime Procrastination and While-in-Bed Procrastination Scales for Adolescents	4
Comparing Presence and Absence of Initial In-Person Contact and Written Feedback in RE&CBT E-Supervision	4
Irrational/Rational Beliefs, Procrastination, and Life Satisfaction: An Empirical Assessment of REBT Models of Psychological Distress and Psychological Health Model	4
How Is Self-efficacy Linked to Procrastination? The Mediating Role of Attentional Control	4
Effects of Exposure in Computer-Assisted Virtual Environments on Vocalists’ Performance Anxiety: A Quasi-Experimental Study	4
Effect of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy on Depressive Symptoms in a Sample of Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability	3
Cognitive Behavioural Play Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorders (SADs) in Children with Speech Impairments	3
The Impact of COVID-19 on Psychological Adjustment Problems: The Mediating Roles of Meaning in Life and Resilience	3
Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Athletic Performance in Student-Athletes	3
Ready for Failure? Irrational Beliefs, Perfectionism and Mental Health in Male Soccer Academy Players	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Application of Rational Emotive Behavior Theory and Practice to High-Performance Settings	3
The Combined Contribution of Fear and Perceived Danger of COVID-19 and Metacognitions to Anxiety Levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Predicting problematic smartphone use based on early maladaptive schemas by using machine learning classification algorithms	3
Validation of Process-Based Components of the LIBET-Q: An Innovative Instrument for Case Conceptualization	3
Decoding Unconditional Self-Acceptance: A Qualitative Report	3
Metacognitive Awareness as the Predictor of Positive Self-Critical Rumination, Personal Best Goals (PBs), and Language Achievement	3
A Study on the Determinants of Undergraduates’ Procrastination: Social Addiction, Negative Emotion as Mediators and Mindfulness as Moderator	3
Perfectionism, Negative Life Events, and Cognitive Appraisal: A Contextual Model of Perfectionism’s Maladaptive Nature	3
Smartphone Addiction, Nomophobia, Depression, and Social Appearance Anxiety Among College Students: A Correlational Study	3
The Influence of Core Self-Evaluation, Rumination, and Forgiveness on the Experience and Expression of Anger	3
When the Dark Employee Takes an Irrational Turn: Exploring the Intersection of Dark Personality Traits and Work-Related Beliefs	3
The Persian Tolerance of Uncontrollability Questionnaire and its Correlates: Reliability, Validity, and Measurement Invariance Across Gender	3
Correction to: Can Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Mindfulness be Integrated Effectively within High Performance Settings?	2

Perfectionism and Suicidal Ideation in Outpatient Depressed Adults: The Moderating Role of Self-Esteem, Loneliness and Rumination	2
Therapists’ Emotional Reactions to Patients with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: The Role of Therapists’ Orientation and Perfectionism	2
Adolescent Soccer Athletes’ Irrational Beliefs About Basic Psychological Needs are Related to Their Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health	2
Preliminary validation of the self-report measure assessing experiences of negative independent and dependent event frequency in Japanese university students	2
The Effect of Acceptance and Commitment-Based Group Training on Self-Esteem and Perceived Stress in Mothers of Children with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder	2
A Cross-Validation of the Anger Cognitions Scale-Revised: Cognitions and Anger in an Italian Adolescent Sample	2
The Mediating Role of Irrational Beliefs in the Relationship between Anger and Sociotropic Personality Traits in Nursing Students	2
Does Rumination Mediate the Unique Effects of Shame and Guilt on Procrastination?	2
Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Adult Psychological Distress Symptoms: The Role of Irrational and Rational Beliefs	2
The Relationship Between Attachment Styles, Ruminative Response Styles, Dysfunctional Attitudes and Major Depression Diagnosis	2
Development and Preliminary Analysis of a Scale to Assess Client Characteristics that Influence Clinical Decision-Making	2
Correction: A Study on the Determinants of Undergraduates’ Procrastination: Social Addiction, Negative Emotion as Mediators and Mindfulness as Moderator	2
The COVID-19 Pandemic—Related Irrational and Rational Beliefs Scale. An Investigation of the REBT Theoretical Model	2
The Effect of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Method on Psychological Symptoms	2
Negative Attributions as a Source of Vulnerability for trauma-related Shame and PTSD Symptoms	2
Unveiling Gender Differences in Psychological Well-being and Rational Beliefs Among Eating Disorder Patients	2
Exploring the Resistance Factors within Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Strategies to Overcome them among Therapist: An Exploratory Study	2
A Home-based Approach to Reduce Test Anxiety Using a Combination of Methods: A Randomized Controlled Trial	2
The Structural Model of Early Maladaptive Schemas with Cardiac Health-Related Behaviors in General Population: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation and Self-compassion	2
From Hero to Zero: A Serial Mediation Model Between Narcissistic Perfectionism and Psychological Distress	2
Factors Predicting the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy in the Treatment of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder	1
Romanian Version of the Frustration Discomfort Scale (FDS): A Preliminary Validation on a Non-clinical Sample	1
The Effectiveness of a Cognitive-Behavioral Prevention Program for Internet Addiction	1
Hope and Loneliness Between Social Support and Resilience: Parallel Mediator Model	1
Not All Individuals Who Encounter Stressful Life Events Experience Mental Distress: The Predictive Ability of Rumination, Neuroticism, Extraversion, Social Support, and Stressful Life Events on Mental	1
Emotion Regulation Difficulties as Moderators in the Relation Between Perceived Stress and the Severity of Somatic Symptoms	1
Intervention for Treating Depression in Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability of Down’s Syndrome: A Sample of Nigerian Parents	1
The Relationship of Metacognition with Worry: The Mediating Role of Emotional Flexibility and Affective Style	1
Validation of the Chinese Version of the Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire	1
Can Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Mindfulness be Integrated Effectively within High Performance Settings?	1
Efficacy of Rational Emotive Career Counselling Programme on Occupational Stress Management in Industrial Hazard Victims: Safety Practice Implications	1
Assessing Metacognitions in Compulsive Exercising: The Construction and Evaluation of the Metacognitions About Exercise Questionnaire	1
Making a Difference: A Review and Auto-Ethnographic Account of Applying Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) in Policing	1
Does a Group CBT-Course for Depressed Youth also Reduce Aggression? Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	1
Hesitancy to Return to the Pre-pandemic Routine	1
An Evaluation of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Mindfulness (CBTm) Classes and Telepsychology Utility in Rural Community Settings	1
Breaking the Chain: The Role of Irrational Thinking in Our Fear of War and Death	1
REBT and the Treatment of Emotional Disturbance Related to Estrangement from Adult Children	1
Effects of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy on Academic Grit	1
How can we Best Use Technology to Teach Children to Regulate Emotions? Efficacy of the Cognitive Reappraisal Strategy Based on Robot Versus Cartoons Versus Written Statements in Regulating Test Anxiet	1
What Does my Anxiety Look Like? A Thematic Analysis of the Impact of a Single Session Imagery Technique on Emotional Issues	1
The Effect of negative emotion on concentration through emotional regulation: mediated moderation of Metacognitive Awareness	1
Neuropsychological Functions in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Patients and the Impact of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy	1
Thought-Action Fusion Associated with Obsessive–Compulsive Symptomatology in OCD Patients: The Pathways from Experiential Avoidance, Thought Suppression, and Depression	1
Predicting Social Life Integration Based on Automatic Thoughts and Resilience Among Children and Adolescents	1
The Interaction Between Self-Regulation Deficits and Negative Problem Orientation Exacerbates Depressive, but not ADHD Symptoms	1
Is cognitive-behavioral coaching an empirically supported approach to coaching? a meta-analysis to investigate its outcomes and moderators	1
Anxiety and Experiential Avoidance Among University Students: The Serial Mediating Role of Optimism and Self-Compassion	1
Can REBT Reduce Academic Stress and Increase Adjustment in Rural Students?	1
School Engagement of Undergraduate History students: Effect of REBT intervention	1