La evaluación de creencias y actitudes disfuncionales en los modelos de Ellis y Beck: similitudes y diferencias

El objetivo del presente estudio es el análisis comparativo del 'Inventario de Actitudes y Creencias' (ABI) y la 'Escala de Actitudes Disfuncionales' (DAS) elaborados, respectivamente, desde las perspectivas de la Terapia Racional Emotivo Conductual (TREC) de Albert Ellis y la Terapia Cognitiva (TC) de Aaron Beck. Administramos sendos cuestionarios a una muestra de 156 estudiantes universitarios y verificamos la correspondencia y covariancia entre escalas mediante análisis de correlación de Spearman y canónica, componentes principales y regresión múltiple. Los resultados revelan escasa correlación y variancia compartida entre el ABI y la DAS, lo que sugeriría que ambos cuestionarios evalúan aspectos diferentes. Sin embargo, consideramos que ello pueda ser debido a la combinación lineal constatada entre las subescalas de actitudes y creencias del ABI, por lo que sugerimos cambios estructurales en el contenido y distribución de los ítems de dicho instrumento

Clinical features of the "Discouraged" Borderline Personality Subtype

The main purpose of this study is to examine the clinical features, measured by the Restructured Form of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2-RF; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008; 2009), of the 'Discouroged' Borderline Personality subtype (DBPs) proposed by Millon (MilIon & Davis, 1996), and assessed with the third edition ofthe MilIon's Clinical Multiaxiallnventory (MCMI- III ; Millon, Oavis, & MilIon, 1997; 2007)

Predictors of tonic immobility during traumatic events

Tonic immobility (TI) is a possible reaction to danger that is facilitated by intense fear, physical restraint and perceived inability to escape. Other variables that could affect TI, such as the type and characteristics of traumatic events and personal characteristics have been little or no studied. The present study evaluated the power of these variables to predict TI in a sample of 273 college students who had experienced at least one traumatic event. Of the sample, 7.7% and 13.2% responded with TI according to the two stricter definitions adopted. Most of the variables were significantly associated with TI in univariate analyses. However, in a multiple regression analysis, only certain features of the events (occurrence of physical/sexual abuse, number of different types of events experienced) and certain reactions to them (perception of how traumatic were the events, severe fear response) were significant predictors of TI. Since these predictors explained only 25% of the variance, the influence of other variables -such as neuroticism, negative affectivity and perceived lack of personal control or resources to cope with traumatic events- should be investigated