العلاقة بين التفكير اللاعقلاني و الفعالية الذاتية لدى المصابين بأمراض القلب

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to look at the relationship between irrational beliefs and self-efficacy as one of the health protective variables, therefore this study has a preventive dimension which referring to the role of self-efficacy in health protection by focusing on it in health education programs, and on the other hand by examining factors that can carry a negative impact on this variable to work on it in therapeutic education, the study included a sample of (60) individuals with heart diseases in case of hospitalization, studied according to the descriptive method, based on two instruments, the irrational beliefs scale, the self-efficacy scale.

after calculating the coefficient, results indicated an inverse correlation between the two variables (0.

34-) which means that increased levels of irrational beliefs produce lower levels of self-efficacy.

The Results variables showed that the majority of patient had irrational beliefs (73.

33%), on the other hand (53.

33%) of the sample have low self-efficacy levels, this is why we conclude that when an individual adopted irrational beliefs that minimize his or her self-efficacy.