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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
At the Coalface: Practitioner Perspectives on Applying Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) in High Performance Sport	21
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Does the Emotion Dysregulation Model Predict Symptoms Beyond the Metacognitive Model?	17
Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the Personality Belief Questionnaire—Short Form in a Community Sample	16
Emotion Regulation Difficulties as Moderators in the Relation Between Perceived Stress and the Severity of Somatic Symptoms	12
Making a Difference: A Review and Auto-Ethnographic Account of Applying Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) in Policing	12
The Irrational Food Beliefs Scale: Validation of the Italian Version in Patients with Obesity	11
Predicting Social Life Integration Based on Automatic Thoughts and Resilience Among Children and Adolescents	10
Investigating the Link Between Dispositional Mindfulness, Beliefs About Emotions, Emotion Regulation and Psychological Health: A Model Testing Study	10
An Internet Addiction Model Based on Cognitive-Behavioral Approach Among Adolescents: Maladaptive Cognitions, Psychopathology, and Situational Cues	10
Quality of Life and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Multiple Sclerosis Patients	10
Decoding Unconditional Self-Acceptance: A Qualitative Report	9
Metacognitive Awareness as the Predictor of Positive Self-Critical Rumination, Personal Best Goals (PBs), and Language Achievement	8
The Influence of Core Self-Evaluation, Mindfulness, and Rumination on Emotional Distress	8
Ready for Failure? Irrational Beliefs, Perfectionism and Mental Health in Male Soccer Academy Players	8
When the Dark Employee Takes an Irrational Turn: Exploring the Intersection of Dark Personality Traits and Work-Related Beliefs	8
Relevant Psychological Factors in Weight Management. How to Think and Behave to Lose Weight and Maintain it for Good	8
Validation of Process-Based Components of the LIBET-Q: An Innovative Instrument for Case Conceptualization	8
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	8
Dark Triad and Dating Violence: Mediating Role of Irrational Beliefs in Romantic Relationships	8
The Persian Tolerance of Uncontrollability Questionnaire and its Correlates: Reliability, Validity, and Measurement Invariance Across Gender	7
Hope and Loneliness Between Social Support and Resilience: Parallel Mediator Model	7
Problematic Internet use in Adults: The Role of Happiness, Psychological Resilience, Dispositional Hope, and Self-control and Self-management	6
Irrational Romantic Relationship Beliefs and Self-silencing: Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation	6
Irrational Beliefs as a Cognitive Mechanism Explaining the Link Between Pathogen Prevalence and Individualism-Collectivism	6
Breaking the Chain: The Role of Irrational Thinking in Our Fear of War and Death	6

Self-critical Rumination and Associated Metacognitions as Mediators of the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Self-esteem	5
Smartphone Addiction, Nomophobia, Depression, and Social Appearance Anxiety Among College Students: A Correlational Study	5
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	5
Dysfunctional Attitudes as a Mediator in the Association Between Problematic Internet Use and Depression, Anxiety, and Stress	5
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Compared to Client-Centered Therapy for Outpatients: A Randomized Clinical Trial with a Three Months Follow up	5
Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Academic Stress Among Rural Community Secondary School Economics Students: A Randomized Controlled Evaluation	5
Is the Association of Procrastination and Age Mediated by Fear of Failure?	5
An Exploratory Analysis of Vengeful Episodes in Prisoners	5
Multiple Mediation of Optimism and Self-Esteem in the Relationship between Irrational Beliefs and Subjective Well-Being	5
Psychometric Properties of the European Portuguese Adaptation of the Insomnia Catastrophizing Scale (ICS)	5
Behavioral Management in Encephalitis Rehabilitation: Review of Clinical Research with Clinical Recommendations	4
Metacognitions About Health in Relation to Coronavirus Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Attentional Syndrome and Distress Tolerance	4
Neuropsychological Functions in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Patients and the Impact of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy	4
Exploring the Effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Educations on Childbirth Self-efficacy, Childbirth Fear, and Adaptation of Maternal Role Among Primiparous Women: A Quasi-Experimental Study	4
Perfectionism, Negative Life Events, and Cognitive Appraisal: A Contextual Model of Perfectionism’s Maladaptive Nature	4
Cognitive Control and Flexibility to Happiness: Distress Tolerance and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation as Serial Mediators	4
Predicting problematic smartphone use based on early maladaptive schemas by using machine learning classification algorithms	4
Improving Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Autistic Individuals: A Delphi Survey with Practitioners	4
The Role of Desire Thinking and Craving in Problematic Smartphone Use	4
What were you Thinking? A Comparison of Rater Coding and word Counts for Content Analysis of Thought Samples in Depression	3
The Effectiveness of a Cognitive-Behavioral Prevention Program for Internet Addiction	3
Childhood Adversity, Resilience, and Paranoia During the COVID-19 Outbreak. The Mediating Role of Irrational Beliefs and Affective Disturbance	3
A Study on the Determinants of Undergraduates’ Procrastination: Social Addiction, Negative Emotion as Mediators and Mindfulness as Moderator	3
Cognitive Behavioural Play Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorders (SADs) in Children with Speech Impairments	3
Intervention for Treating Depression in Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability of Down’s Syndrome: A Sample of Nigerian Parents	3
Effects of Cognitive Behavior Therapy on Patients with Chronic Whiplash-Associated Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Application of Rational Emotive Behavior Theory and Practice to High-Performance Settings	3
Cognitive appraisal, Coping, Stress and Fear Contracting Covid-19 in Working People in Pakistan	3
The Combined Contribution of Fear and Perceived Danger of COVID-19 and Metacognitions to Anxiety Levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Irrational Beliefs Among Competitive High School Student Athletes: Are they General or Context-Driven?	3
The Application of Maultsby’s Rational Behavior Therapy in Psychosis – A Case Report	3
Perfectionistic Cognitions Pre-Pandemic Predict Greater Anxiety Symptoms During the Pandemic Among Emerging Adults: A Two-Wave Cross-Lagged Study	3
Exploring the Association Between Irrational Beliefs, Motivation Regulation and Anxiety in Ultra-Marathon Runners: A Mixed Methods Approach	3
Effect of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy on Depressive Symptoms in a Sample of Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability	3
Correction to: Preliminary Validation of the self-report Measure Assessing Experiences of Negative Independent and Dependent Event Frequency in Japanese University Students	3
Does Rumination Mediate the Unique Effects of Shame and Guilt on Procrastination?	3
The Mediating Role of Irrational Beliefs in the Relationship between Anger and Sociotropic Personality Traits in Nursing Students	2
The Jordanian Version of the Thought Control Questionnaire Insomnia-Revised (TCQI-R)	2
Relationships Between School Bullying and Frustration Intolerance Beliefs in Adolescence: A Gender-Specific Analysis	2
Rethinking Leahy’s Emotional Schema Scale (LESS): Results from the Portuguese Adaptation of the LESS	2
A Comparison Between Self-compassion and Unconditional Self-acceptance: Interventions on Self-blame, Empathy, Shame-, Guilt-Proneness, and Performance	2
Is cognitive-behavioral coaching an empirically supported approach to coaching? a meta-analysis to investigate its outcomes and moderators	2
The Relationship Between Attachment Styles, Ruminative Response Styles, Dysfunctional Attitudes and Major Depression Diagnosis	2
Early Maladaptive Schemas are Associated with Adolescents’ Substance and Behavioral Addictions	2
The Socialisation of Athlete Irrational Beliefs	2
The Persian Version of the Personality Beliefs Questionnaire-Short-Form (PBQ-SF): A Psychometric Evaluation	2
Proposing a Measurement Model of REBT and Applying It to the Assessment of Well-Being and Happiness in Patients with Tension-Type Headaches	2
Validation of the Chinese Version of the Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire	2
Rumination and Co-Rumination and their Associations with Alcohol-Related Problems and Depressive Symptoms among College Students	2
Health-Related Cognitions and Metacognitions Indirectly Contribute to the Relationships Between Impulsivity, Fear of COVID-19, and Cyberchondria	2

The Direct and Indirect Effects of Irrational Beliefs on Perceived Performance: The Mediation Role of Emotions and Automatic Thoughts	2
How Do Cognition and Emotion Regulation Strategies and Intolerance of Uncertainty Predict the Severity of Fatigue and Daily Life Activities of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients?	2
Assessing Metacognitions in Compulsive Exercising: The Construction and Evaluation of the Metacognitions About Exercise Questionnaire	2
Dispositional Mindfulness, COVID-19 Burnout, and Life Satisfaction: Examining Longitudinal Mediation	1
Negative Attributions as a Source of Vulnerability for trauma-related Shame and PTSD Symptoms	1
Characteristics of Online Pornography and Interventions Against its Negative Effects in Young People: Results from an International Delphi Panel	1
Metacognition and Academic Procrastination: A Meta-Analytical Examination	1
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	1
Familial Thinking Patterns: Rational and Irrational Beliefs During a Life Transition	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
Correction to: Can Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Mindfulness be Integrated Effectively within High Performance Settings?	1
The Effect of Online Cognitive Behavioral Group Counseling on Anxiety, Depression, Stress and Resilience in Maraş-Centered Earthquake Survivors	1
Treating the Psychological Distress in Children with Adventitious Blindness	1
Negative Life Events Associated with COVID-19 and Psychological Distress: The Role of Irrational and Rational Beliefs	1
Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavior Coaching Intervention for Promoting College Students’ Financial Risk Tolerance and Attitudes Towards Financial Risk	1
The Effect of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Method on Psychological Symptoms	1
Correlation of Alexithymia with Grief and Depression Symptom Severity in Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder	1
Financial Risk Tolerance and Financial Risk Attitudes of Commercial Bank Customers and the Role of REBT-Based Business Coaching: Implications for Accounting Research	1
Comparing Presence and Absence of Initial In-Person Contact and Written Feedback in RE&CBT E-Supervision	1
Adolescent Soccer Athletes’ Irrational Beliefs About Basic Psychological Needs are Related to Their Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health	1
REBT with Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	1
Perfectionism and Suicidal Ideation in Outpatient Depressed Adults: The Moderating Role of Self-Esteem, Loneliness and Rumination	1
Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Adult Psychological Distress Symptoms: The Role of Irrational and Rational Beliefs	1
COVID-19 Related Negative Life Events and Psychological Distress: The Role of Emotion and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies	1
Exploring the Mechanism of Subjective Social Status on Compulsive Shopping Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model of Self-compassion and Depression	1
The Effect of negative emotion on concentration through emotional regulation: mediated moderation of Metacognitive Awareness	1
Effect of School-based Rational-Emotive Behaviour Program on Burnout Among Adult Learners: Moderating Influence of Participants' Demographic Variables	1
The Role of Self-Compassion on Psychological Well-Being and Life Satisfaction of Vietnamese Undergraduate Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Hope as a Mediator	1
Effects of Rational Emotive Behavior Occupational Intervention on Perceptions of Work Value and Ethical Practices: Implications for Educational Policy Makers	1
Factors Predicting the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy in the Treatment of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder	1
Client Factors Influencing Adherence to Homework in Psychotherapy: Findings from a Tertiary Care Setting in India	1
Quality of Work-Life and Stress Management in a Rural Sample of Primary School Teachers: An Intervention Study	1