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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Irrational Food Beliefs Scale: Validation of the Italian Version in Patients with Obesity	21
An Exploratory Analysis of Vengeful Episodes in Prisoners	19
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Does the Emotion Dysregulation Model Predict Symptoms Beyond the Metacognitive Model?	18
Self-critical Rumination and Associated Metacognitions as Mediators of the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Self-esteem	18
Irrational Romantic Relationship Beliefs and Self-silencing: Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation	16
Problematic Internet use in Adults: The Role of Happiness, Psychological Resilience, Dispositional Hope, and Self-control and Self-management	14
The Influence of Core Self-Evaluation, Mindfulness, and Rumination on Emotional Distress	13
The Psychological Impact of Competitive Sports Participation on Adolescent Athletes: an Analysis of Coping Mechanisms and Performance Outcomes	12
Dispositional Mindfulness, COVID-19 Burnout, and Life Satisfaction: Examining Longitudinal Mediation	12
Cognitive appraisal, Coping, Stress and Fear Contracting Covid-19 in Working People in Pakistan	12
Rumination and Co-Rumination and their Associations with Alcohol-Related Problems and Depressive Symptoms among College Students	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
REBT with Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	11
A Comparison Between Self-compassion and Unconditional Self-acceptance: Interventions on Self-blame, Empathy, Shame-, Guilt-Proneness, and Performance	11
Emotion Dysregulation in Adolescents Exhibiting Depression with Elevated Anxiety: Prevalence and Associated Factors	11
Relationships Between School Bullying and Frustration Intolerance Beliefs in Adolescence: A Gender-Specific Analysis	11
Rumination Mediates the Relationship Between Childhood Traumas with Cognitive Defusion, Acceptance, and Emotion Regulation: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study	10
Inferred Exposure and Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy with Older Patients	10
Financial Risk Tolerance and Financial Risk Attitudes of Commercial Bank Customers and the Role of REBT-Based Business Coaching: Implications for Accounting Research	10
The Effect of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy on Post-Traumatic Depression in Flood Victims	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 ABC Model of Positive Feelings: A Preliminary Test	9
Mediating Effects of Resilience Between Mindfulness, Self-compassion, and Psychological Distress in a Longitudinal Study	9
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
Efficacy of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy on Depression Among Children with Learning Disabilities: Implications for Evaluation in Science Teaching	8
The Role of Rumination in Anxiety Disorders	7
Self-compassion and Students' Well-Being Among Vietnamese Students: Chain Mediation Effect of Narcissism and Anxiety	7
Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Psychological Factors Among Students: A Meta-Analytic Study	7
Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Academic Stress Among Rural Community Secondary School Economics Students: A Randomized Controlled Evaluation	6
Predictors of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Mental Health Professionals: Trauma History, Self-Compassion, Emotional Intelligence	6
What were you Thinking? A Comparison of Rater Coding and word Counts for Content Analysis of Thought Samples in Depression	6
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Stress Reduction among Primary Education Pupils in Nigeria	6
Psychometric Properties of the European Portuguese Adaptation of the Insomnia Catastrophizing Scale (ICS)	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 3D REThink Life Game, a Game-Based Intervention for Training Emotion Regulation Abilities	5
COVID-19 Related Negative Life Events and Psychological Distress: The Role of Emotion and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies	5
Treating the Psychological Distress in Children with Adventitious Blindness	5
Comparing Presence and Absence of Initial In-Person Contact and Written Feedback in RE&CBT E-Supervision	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
Social Support and Flourishing Among Adolescents: The Multiple Mediating Roles of Self-Compassion and Sense of Coherence	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
Rethinking Leahy’s Emotional Schema Scale (LESS): Results from the Portuguese Adaptation of the LESS	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
Effects of Exposure in Computer-Assisted Virtual Environments on Vocalists’ Performance Anxiety: A Quasi-Experimental Study	4
Exploring Factor and Correlational Analysis of the Portuguese Version of the Unconditional Self-acceptance Questionnaire-Revised	4
The Influence of Core Self-Evaluation, Rumination, and Forgiveness on the Experience and Expression of Anger	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
Characteristics of Patients in Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) Who Have Difficulties in Emotion Regulation	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
The Impact of COVID-19 on Psychological Adjustment Problems: The Mediating Roles of Meaning in Life and Resilience	4
Smartphone Addiction, Nomophobia, Depression, and Social Appearance Anxiety Among College Students: A Correlational Study	3
Decoding Unconditional Self-Acceptance: A Qualitative Report	3
Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Athletic Performance in Student-Athletes	3
Validation of Process-Based Components of the LIBET-Q: An Innovative Instrument for Case Conceptualization	3
Perfectionism, Negative Life Events, and Cognitive Appraisal: A Contextual Model of Perfectionism’s Maladaptive Nature	3
Correction to: Can Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Mindfulness be Integrated Effectively within 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
The Persian Tolerance of Uncontrollability Questionnaire and its Correlates: Reliability, Validity, and Measurement Invariance Across Gender	3
When the Dark Employee Takes an Irrational Turn: Exploring the Intersection of Dark Personality Traits and Work-Related Beliefs	3
Ready for Failure? Irrational Beliefs, Perfectionism and Mental Health in Male Soccer Academy Players	3
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 Mediating Role of Irrational Beliefs in the Relationship between Anger and Sociotropic Personality Traits in Nursing Students	3
Metacognitive Awareness as the Predictor of Positive Self-Critical Rumination, Personal Best Goals (PBs), and Language Achievement	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Application of Rational Emotive Behavior Theory and Practice to High-Performance Settings	3
A Study on the Determinants of Undergraduates’ Procrastination: Social Addiction, Negative Emotion as Mediators and Mindfulness as Moderator	3
Predicting problematic smartphone use based on early maladaptive schemas by using machine learning classification algorithms	3
The Effect of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Method on Psychological Symptoms	3

Negative Attributions as a Source of Vulnerability for trauma-related Shame and PTSD Symptoms	3
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
Adolescent Soccer Athletes’ Irrational Beliefs About Basic Psychological Needs are Related to Their Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health	2
The Relationship Between Attachment Styles, Ruminative Response Styles, Dysfunctional Attitudes and Major Depression Diagnosis	2
Unveiling Gender Differences in Psychological Well-being and Rational Beliefs Among Eating Disorder Patients	2
Therapists’ Emotional Reactions to Patients with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: The Role of Therapists’ Orientation and Perfectionism	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
Preliminary validation of the self-report measure assessing experiences of negative independent and dependent event frequency in Japanese university students	2
The Relationship of Metacognition with Worry: The Mediating Role of Emotional Flexibility and Affective Style	2
Perfectionism and Suicidal Ideation in Outpatient Depressed Adults: The Moderating Role of Self-Esteem, Loneliness and Rumination	2
Online Emotion Regulation-Based Intervention for Reducing Anger: A Randomized Controlled Trial	2
Exploring the Resistance Factors within Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Strategies to Overcome them among Therapist: An Exploratory Study	2
From Hero to Zero: A Serial Mediation Model Between Narcissistic Perfectionism and Psychological Distress	2
Development and Preliminary Analysis of a Scale to Assess Client Characteristics that Influence Clinical Decision-Making	2
The COVID-19 Pandemic—Related Irrational and Rational Beliefs Scale. An Investigation of the REBT Theoretical Model	2
Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Adult Psychological Distress Symptoms: The Role of Irrational and Rational Beliefs	2
Does Rumination Mediate the Unique Effects of Shame and Guilt on Procrastination?	2
A Cross-Validation of the Anger Cognitions Scale-Revised: Cognitions and Anger in an Italian Adolescent Sample	2
The Interaction Between Self-Regulation Deficits and Negative Problem Orientation Exacerbates Depressive, but not ADHD Symptoms	2
Correction: A Study on the Determinants of Undergraduates’ Procrastination: Social Addiction, Negative Emotion as Mediators and Mindfulness as Moderator	2