Survey of Personal Beliefs, SPB

Test scores

Lower scores indicate greater irrationality.

• Awfulizing beliefs – ideas that objectively negative and aversive life experiences, like failing a test or being rejected by a lover, are terrible catastrophies.

• Should, ought, and must beliefs – beliefs that feature dictatorial demands and inflexible standards about how the world must be.

• Low frustration tolerance beliefs – beliefs indicating an unrealistic perception that aversive situations cannot be tolerated or adapted to.

• Self-worth beliefs – beliefs indicating an evaluation of a persons total self, as apposed to specific behaviors or actions.