The Effect of Rational Therapy on Modifying Irrational Thoughts Among University Students

Wafaa Shaker Abdel Karim

Wafaa Shaker Abdel Karim

Keywords: rational emotive therapy, irrational thoughts, university students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the effect of rational treatment in modifying irrational thoughts among university students, College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences/Al-Qasim Green University. The researcher has dealt with a theoretical framework that includes all the variables of the research, and to achieve the goals, a measure of irrational thoughts was built, using a large statistical analysis sample. It numbered (200) male and female students, and after verifying its validity and reliability, the number of items in this scale reached (24) items distributed on scale areas. To test the research hypotheses, the researcher chose a sample of (16) male students only, who were intentionally selected from those who obtained the highest scores on the scale. Irrational thoughts. They were divided into two groups (experimental and control) with (8) students for each group, after equality had been achieved for the two groups. As well as building the therapeutic program according to the problems presented in the scale according to the method (the rational-emotive treatment method), one session of the therapeutic program was taken, and after completing the application of the therapeutic program using the group treatment method on the research sample, the results showed that the program was effective in reducing irrational thoughts among the students. the university.

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