ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Psychological Therapy and Psychosomatics
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1571324
The development and validation of an integrated assessment of irrational beliefs concerning basic psychological needs: The rational emotive self-determination scale for workers (RESD-W)
Provisionally accepted
- 1Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- 2Beykoz University, Istanbul, Türkiye
- 3Istanbul Rumeli University, Istanbul, Türkiye
- 4Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
- 5Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Recently a new approach to understanding human behaviour has emerged that integrates rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) from the cognitive behavioural tradition, and selfdetermination theory (SDT) from the humanistic tradition. In the current study, we develop a psychometric that conceptualizes this new approach in organisational settings; the rational emotive self-determination scale for work (RESD-W). The RESD-W assesses respondents' irrational beliefs (from REBT) concerning the basic psychological needs (from SDT), namely perceptions of autonomy, competence, and relatedness within their work life. The RESD-W builds on initial validations of the RESD in adolescent populations (RESD-A). In the current paper, the psychometric properties of the 16-item RESD-W were examined across five studies, in which the factor structure, the reliability of the scale, and construct and criterion-oriented validity of the RESD-W were assessed. Analyses confirmed theoretical expectations and yielded good psychometric properties. Scores in the RESD-W were associated with anxiety and depression, and negative emotions in the workplace. The results are discussed regarding practice, highlighting that work related psychological wellbeing may be predicated on the integration of irrational beliefs and basic psychological needs.
Keywords: Self-determined motivation, Irrational beliefs, psychometric development, Basic psychological needs, Occupational setting
Received: 05 Feb 2025; Accepted: 06 May 2025.
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* Correspondence: Martin James Turner, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
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