This study tested the factor structure of the Attitudes and Beliefs Scale-2, a measure of Ellis’ irrational and rational beliefs. The scale includes items that assess both irrationality and rationality. Within this framework, items reflect one of four irrational cognitive processes and their rational alternatives, including demandingness versus preferences, frustration intolerance versus tolerance, awfulizing versus realistic negative evaluations, and self-condemnation versus self-acceptance, and one of three content domains including affiliation, achievement, and comfort. The sample of 1500 consisted of college students, psychotherapy outpatients, and patients from a residential substance abuse program. We used the lavaan program with Diagonally Weighted Least Squares estimation procedures to test 11 different models. An 8-factor bifactor model had an excellent fit and appeared better than the other models using. This model had items load on one of the four irrational cognitive process factors of demandingness, awfulizing, frustration intolerance, or self-condemnation, or one of the rational cognitive process factors of non-demanding preferences, realistic negative evaluations, frustration tolerance, or self-acceptance. The second or bifactor solution had all items load on to one general factor. This model has eight factors that are designed to assess factors for the cognitive processes split into the irrational and rationality dimensions, and these results support the factor structure of the test and the theoretical structure of irrational and rational beliefs currently adopted in REBT. The implications for REBT practice were discussed as well as the future of assessment research in REBT.

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态度和信念量表 2 的因素结构：对理性情绪行为疗法的影响

本研究测试了态度和信念量表 2 的因素结构，该量表是衡量埃利斯非理性和理性信念的指标。该量表包括评估非理性和理性的项目。在这个框架内，项目反映了四种非理性认知过程中的一种及其理性选择，包括要求与偏好、挫折不容忍与容忍、可怕与现实的负面评价、自我谴责与自我接受，以及三个内容领域之一，包括从属关系、成就和舒适。1500 名样本包括大学生、心理治疗门诊患者和来自住宅药物滥用计划的患者。我们使用带有对角加权最小二乘估计程序的 lavaan 程序来测试 11 个不同的模型。一个 8 因子双因子模型具有极佳的拟合效果，并且看起来比使用的其他模型更好。该模型将项目加载到苛刻、可怕、挫折不容忍或自我谴责四个非理性认知过程因素之一，或非要求偏好、现实负面评价、挫折容忍或自我谴责的理性认知过程因素之一。 -验收。第二个或双因子解决方案将所有项目加载到一个通用因子上。该模型有八个因素，旨在评估分为非理性和理性维度的认知过程的因素，这些结果支持测试的因素结构以及目前 REBT 中采用的非理性和理性信念的理论结构。