Abstract
This Indonesian version of Irrational Beliefs Test (IV-IBT) measures the irrational thoughts in accordance with the irrational belief’s concept by Albert Ellis (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) and is the result from the language and cultural adaptation of Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT; Richard Garner Jones, 1968). There are 10 irrational thoughts contained in IBT namely demand for approval, high self-expectation, blame proneness, frustration reactive, anxious overcome, problem avoidance, dependency, helplessness, perfectionism. IBT consists of 100 items originating from 10 items for each type of irrational thoughts. The IBT adaptation process was conducted using the Guidelines for test translations (van de Vijver & Hambleton, 1996), and further elaborated into four major steps, namely (1) the translation from English into Indonesian by an expert in English language and a psychologist, and from Indonesian into English by two experts in English language, (2) content validity assessment by three assessors who master the REBT concepts and psychological measurement, (3) dimensionality examination with exploratory factor analysis, (4) empirical testing to obtain the accurate, adequate, and relevant item formulation involving 302 students. The Irrational Beliefs Test consists of 31 items, 10 factors, and is unidimensional (single dimension) in nature. Results and discussion are described in the Indonesian culture context.
Highlights
Conducting counseling based on theories and approaches appropriate with counselee’s condition are one competence of a professional counselor who is related to guidance and counseling theoretical and practical frameworks
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is developed by Albert Ellis which start edits long journey since Rational Therapy (1955), Rational Emotive Therapy (1960s), and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (1990s) is one of the counseling theories orienting on cognition
This translation process aims to produce formulation of items appropriate to the context or culture of Indonesia. This process follows the stages as follows: (1) two translators separately translated Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT) into Indonesia version, (2) both translations were assessed in terms of the equivalence by a panel of a psychologist and an expert of counseling who master English well, (3) IBT in Bahasa Indonesia version was retranslated separately by two English linguistics experts,(4) the back translation results were compared with the original IBT by a panel, (5) conducting pilot study which involved 15 respondents to find out what problems emerging when the respondents worked on the IBT in Bahasa Indonesia 2
Summary
Conducting counseling based on theories and approaches appropriate with counselee’s condition are one competence of a professional counselor who is related to guidance and counseling theoretical and practical frameworks. Choosing and administering instrument to reveal the actual condition of counselee is one competence of a professional counselor that is related to conceptual and practical mastery of assessment to understand condition, needs and problems of counselee. Those professional competencies are described in the Regulation of Minister of National Education No 27 in 2008 about Counselor Academic Qualification and Competence Standards. Human can think both rationally and irrationally Their rational beliefs were introduced during early childhood in cultural of environment, and they tend to be implanted deeper since man strengthens them with various kinds of excuses. In the process of counseling, counselee’s irrational beliefs can be transformed intorational ones through the process of disputing
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