Question

1.Rational emotive behavior therapy is based on the ABC theory of personality. Can you think of situations in which activating events led you to specific consequences, even though your beliefs, if you thought about them enough, were the real reason for the consequence you experienced?

Answer 1

During work, there was deadline i had to accomplish, and the activating event was this deadline and less time to finish this work. As a consequences i was under high stress and in a state of panic. But, later on i realised that this consequence was due to my beliefs that i will not be able to complete the work and that i was not capable of handling the pressure.

Another situation is when i played a football match for my college i was very confident and good at performing. The activating event was football and the consequence was doing well at it. But, actually it was my belief in my abilities and that i can perform well that caused me to do well.