The A-B-C analysis in Rational Emotive Therapy stands for:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Antecedent-belief-consequence
Option (1) Application-behavior-consequence — Incorrect. There is no such analysis.
Option (2) Analysis-behavior-consequence — Incorrect. There is no such analysis.
Option (3) Antecedent-belief-consequence — Correct. Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) holds that irrational beliefs stand between an event and its consequence. So the first step is the ABC analysis: the antecedent event that caused distress is noted, the irrational belief (“everybody must love me”) is found, and the distressing consequence is traced to that belief rather than to the event.
Option (4) Affect-behavior-cognition — Incorrect. These are the A-B-C components of an attitude (affective, behavioural, cognitive), a different topic of the same book.
Note: A similar question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2023 on 15-06-2023 (Slot 3).
NCERT (2025-26): “Cognitive Therapy Cognitive therapies locate the cause of psychological distress in irrational thoughts and beliefs. Albert Ellis formulated the Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). The central thesis of this therapy is that irrational beliefs mediate between the antecedent events and their consequences. The first step in RET is the antecedent-belief-consequence (ABC) analysis.…” |