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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An Exploratory Analysis of Vengeful Episodes in Prisoners	22
Problematic Internet use in Adults: The Role of Happiness, Psychological Resilience, Dispositional Hope, and Self-control and Self-management	22
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Does the Emotion Dysregulation Model Predict Symptoms Beyond the Metacognitive Model?	21
Irrational Romantic Relationship Beliefs and Self-silencing: Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation	19
The Irrational Food Beliefs Scale: Validation of the Italian Version in Patients with Obesity	17
The Role of Personality and Irrational Beliefs in the Development and Recurrence of Depression in Later Life	15
The Influence of Core Self-Evaluation, Mindfulness, and Rumination on Emotional Distress	15
Cognitive appraisal, Coping, Stress and Fear Contracting Covid-19 in Working People in Pakistan	14
The Psychological Impact of Competitive Sports Participation on Adolescent Athletes: an Analysis of Coping Mechanisms and Performance Outcomes	14
Dispositional Mindfulness, COVID-19 Burnout, and Life Satisfaction: Examining Longitudinal Mediation	13
Examining the Effects Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) with Embedded Athlete Rational Resilience Credo (ARRC) on the Irrational Beliefs, Motivation Regulation, and Mental Health in Student-At	13
A Comparison Between Self-compassion and Unconditional Self-acceptance: Interventions on Self-blame, Empathy, Shame-, Guilt-Proneness, and Performance	12
Correction: An Emotional Skills Intervention for Elementary Children with Autism in China: A Pilot Study	12
Inferred Exposure and Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy with Older Patients	12
The Experience of Being Emotionally Maltreated and Self-regulatory Strategies in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: Pathways to Depressive Symptoms	11
Emotion Dysregulation in Adolescents Exhibiting Depression with Elevated Anxiety: Prevalence and Associated Factors	11
Financial Risk Tolerance and Financial Risk Attitudes of Commercial Bank Customers and the Role of REBT-Based Business Coaching: Implications for Accounting Research	11
REBT with Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	11
Rumination Mediates the Relationship Between Childhood Traumas with Cognitive Defusion, Acceptance, and Emotion Regulation: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study	10
The Role of Affective States in CBT-I Effectiveness: Validation of the Italian Version of POMS in Insomnia Population	10
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	9
Correction to: The Combined Contribution of Fear and Perceived Danger of COVID 19 and Metacognitions to Anxiety Levels during the COVID 19 Pandemic	8
Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Psychological Factors Among Students: A Meta-Analytic Study	8
Mediating Effects of Resilience Between Mindfulness, Self-compassion, and Psychological Distress in a Longitudinal Study	8
Predictors of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Mental Health Professionals: Trauma History, Self-Compassion, Emotional Intelligence	7

The Role of Rumination in Anxiety Disorders	7
The ABC Model of Positive Feelings: A Preliminary Test	7
Exploring the Relationship Between Other-Directedness Schema and Dysfunctional Anger Expression in Korean Adults: Mediating Roles of Rejection Sensitivity and Mentalizing	7
Examining the Impact of CBT on Irrational Beliefs About Clothing Preferences and Self-expression Among Adolescents	7
The Impact of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Resilience, Well-Being, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness of Psychological Counseling Students: A Mixed Method Study	6
The 3D REThink Life Game, a Game-Based Intervention for Training Emotion Regulation Abilities	6
Treating the Psychological Distress in Children with Adventitious Blindness	6
Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Academic Stress Among Rural Community Secondary School Economics Students: A Randomized Controlled Evaluation	6
Self-compassion and Students' Well-Being Among Vietnamese Students: Chain Mediation Effect of Narcissism and Anxiety	6
Correction to: Preliminary Validation of the self-report Measure Assessing Experiences of Negative Independent and Dependent Event Frequency in Japanese University Students	6
The Impact of Depression on the Meaning of Life of Police College Students: The Chain Mediating Role of Negative Cognitive Processing Bias and Core Self-Evaluation	6
Group-Based Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Enhancing Resilience and Preventing Depression and Anxiety in At-Risk Elderly: A Randomized Controlled Trial	6
The Mediating Role of Social Media Burnout between Irrational Beliefs and Psychological Distress	6
What were you Thinking? A Comparison of Rater Coding and word Counts for Content Analysis of Thought Samples in Depression	6
Health-Related Cognitions and Metacognitions Indirectly Contribute to the Relationships Between Impulsivity, Fear of COVID-19, and Cyberchondria	6
COVID-19 Related Negative Life Events and Psychological Distress: The Role of Emotion and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies	6
The Relations of Alexithymia to Unacceptable Obsessional Thoughts and Suicidal Risk in OCD: The Roles of Experiential Avoidance, Emotional Suppression, Cognitive Reappraisal, and Depression	5
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	5
Rethinking Leahy’s Emotional Schema Scale (LESS): Results from the Portuguese Adaptation of the LESS	5
Social Support and Flourishing Among Adolescents: The Multiple Mediating Roles of Self-Compassion and Sense of Coherence	5
Comparing Presence and Absence of Initial In-Person Contact and Written Feedback in RE&CBT E-Supervision	5
Introducing Dialectical Core Schemas Theory through Mediation Models	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
Effects of Exposure in Computer-Assisted Virtual Environments on Vocalists’ Performance Anxiety: A Quasi-Experimental Study	4
The Hidden Cost of Emotion Regulation Difficulties: Exploring the Correlation between Self-Silencing and Somatization in Women	4
Fear of Physical Sensations and Metacognitions About Health Anxiety Mediate the Relationship Between Negative Affect and Health Anxiety	4
Effect of Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Community Dwelling Older Adults on their Mental Health and Quality of Life: Interventional Study	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
Procrastination as a Mediator Between Facebook Addiction and Mental Health	4
Investigation of the Turkish Psychometric Properties of Bedtime Procrastination and While-in-Bed Procrastination Scales for Adolescents	4
How Is Self-efficacy Linked to Procrastination? The Mediating Role of Attentional Control	4
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
Predicting problematic smartphone use based on early maladaptive schemas by using machine learning classification algorithms	3
A Study on the Determinants of Undergraduates’ Procrastination: Social Addiction, Negative Emotion as Mediators and Mindfulness as Moderator	3
Effect of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy on Depressive Symptoms in a Sample of Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability	3
Decoding Unconditional Self-Acceptance: A Qualitative Report	3
Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Athletic Performance in Student-Athletes	3
The Persian Tolerance of Uncontrollability Questionnaire and its Correlates: Reliability, Validity, and Measurement Invariance Across Gender	3
Ready for Failure? Irrational Beliefs, Perfectionism and Mental Health in Male Soccer Academy Players	3
How Much Does Coaching Relationship Matter for the Outcomes? The Role of the Coaching Relationship Components When Using a General or Cognitive-Behavioral Approach in Coaching	3
Metacognitive Awareness as the Predictor of Positive Self-Critical Rumination, Personal Best Goals (PBs), and Language Achievement	3
The Impact of COVID-19 on Psychological Adjustment Problems: The Mediating Roles of Meaning in Life and Resilience	3
Validation of Process-Based Components of the LIBET-Q: An Innovative Instrument for Case Conceptualization	3
Smartphone Addiction, Nomophobia, Depression, and Social Appearance Anxiety Among College Students: A Correlational Study	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
Perfectionism, Negative Life Events, and Cognitive Appraisal: A Contextual Model of Perfectionism’s Maladaptive Nature	2
Unveiling Gender Differences in Psychological Well-being and Rational Beliefs Among Eating Disorder Patients	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
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
Cognitive Behavioural Play Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorders (SADs) in Children with Speech Impairments	2
Correction to: Can Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Mindfulness be Integrated Effectively within High Performance Settings?	2
Online Emotion Regulation-Based Intervention for Reducing Anger: A Randomized Controlled Trial	2
Does Rumination Mediate the Unique Effects of Shame and Guilt on Procrastination?	2
The IUS-4: A Psychometric Evaluation of an Ultra-Brief Intolerance of Uncertainty Measure	2
The COVID-19 Pandemic—Related Irrational and Rational Beliefs Scale. An Investigation of the REBT Theoretical Model	2
Exploring the Resistance Factors within Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Strategies to Overcome them among Therapist: An Exploratory Study	2
Negative Attributions as a Source of Vulnerability for trauma-related Shame and PTSD Symptoms	2
The Mediating Role of Irrational Beliefs in the Relationship between Anger and Sociotropic Personality Traits in Nursing Students	2
The Relationship Between Attachment Styles, Ruminative Response Styles, Dysfunctional Attitudes and Major Depression Diagnosis	2
Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Adult Psychological Distress Symptoms: The Role of Irrational and Rational Beliefs	2
Enhancing Professional Skills: Assessing the Impact of a Computer-Based Training Program on Interview Skills, Self-Efficacy, and Anxiety Levels in Psychology Students	2
From Hero to Zero: A Serial Mediation Model Between Narcissistic Perfectionism and Psychological Distress	2
The Relative Contribution of Core Cognitive Beliefs and Metacognitive Beliefs to Depression and Behavioral Activation Factors	2
Perfectionism and Suicidal Ideation in Outpatient Depressed Adults: The Moderating Role of Self-Esteem, Loneliness and Rumination	2
The Effect of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Method on Psychological Symptoms	2
Emotion Regulation Difficulties as Moderators in the Relation Between Perceived Stress and the Severity of Somatic Symptoms	1
The Interaction Between Self-Regulation Deficits and Negative Problem Orientation Exacerbates Depressive, but not ADHD Symptoms	1
Efficacy of Rational Emotive Career Counselling Programme on Occupational Stress Management in Industrial Hazard Victims: Safety Practice Implications	1
Development & Validation of a Short Version of the Symptomatic Transdiagnostic Test (s-S2T): A New Quick Screening Tool for Clinicians	1
REBT and the Treatment of Emotional Disturbance Related to Estrangement from Adult Children	1
The Effects of Self-Identity on College Students’ Compulsive Buying Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model	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
Preliminary validation of the self-report measure assessing experiences of negative independent and dependent event frequency in Japanese university students	1
The Structural Model of Early Maladaptive Schemas with Cardiac Health-Related Behaviors in General Population: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation and Self-compassion	1
Neuropsychological Functions in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Patients and the Impact of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy	1
The Effect of negative emotion on concentration through emotional regulation: mediated moderation of Metacognitive Awareness	1
Is cognitive-behavioral coaching an empirically supported approach to coaching? a meta-analysis to investigate its outcomes and moderators	1
Assessing Metacognitions in Compulsive Exercising: The Construction and Evaluation of the Metacognitions About Exercise Questionnaire	1
Intervention for Treating Depression in Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability of Down’s Syndrome: A Sample of Nigerian Parents	1
Letting Go of Anger: Effectiveness and Interaction with Nonjudging and Daily Adjustment—Evidence from a Diary Study	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
A Home-based Approach to Reduce Test Anxiety Using a Combination of Methods: A Randomized Controlled Trial	1
Correction: A Study on the Determinants of Undergraduates’ Procrastination: Social Addiction, Negative Emotion as Mediators and Mindfulness as Moderator	1
Making a Difference: A Review and Auto-Ethnographic Account of Applying Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) in Policing	1
Hope and Loneliness Between Social Support and Resilience: Parallel Mediator Model	1
Validation of the Chinese Version of the Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire	1
What Does my Anxiety Look Like? A Thematic Analysis of the Impact of a Single Session Imagery Technique on Emotional Issues	1
The Effectiveness of a Cognitive-Behavioral Prevention Program for Internet Addiction	1
Does a Group CBT-Course for Depressed Youth also Reduce Aggression? Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	1
Breaking the Chain: The Role of Irrational Thinking in Our Fear of War and Death	1
Development and Preliminary Analysis of a Scale to Assess Client Characteristics that Influence Clinical Decision-Making	1