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The Persian Version of the Personality Beliefs Questionnaire-Short-Form (PBQ-SF): A Psychometric Evaluation

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The Personality Beliefs Questionnaire-Short Form (PBQ-SF) is the short-form version of PBQ (Beck and Beck in The personality belief questionnaire, 1991) and was developed by Butler et al. (Cogn Therapy Res 31(3): 357–370, 2007) to assess dysfunctional beliefs based on cognitive formulations of personality disorders. This study designed to examine the factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the Persian PBQ-SF in a sample of 502 university students in Iran (M age = 23.22, SD = 4.99, 56.6% women). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the proposed ten-factor model. The internal consistency of the Persian version of PBQ-SF ranged from .56 (Avoidant) to .81 (Histrionic), while MIC values indicated reliabilities in the acceptable range for all PBQ-SF factors. Also, expected associations between PBQ-SF factors (e.g., Narcissism and Antisocial) and external correlates (e.g., Disinhibition and Antagonism) supported the measure's convergent validity. The findings indicated that the Persian version of the PBQ-SF has sound psychometric properties and is a valid and reliable tool for assessing dysfunctional beliefs.

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The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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This study was financially supported by Student Research Committee, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran (Grant number: 2387).

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    Ehsan Taheri, Ali Ebrahimi, Hanieh Sadat Atashipoor, Mohammad Taheri & Hasan Mollaee

  2. School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Institute of Psychiatry), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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ET and AE: designed the study and drafted the manuscript. MEA: performed data analysis and reviewed/revised the manuscript. HSA, MT, and HM: gathered the data.

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Taheri, E., Athar, M.E., Ebrahimi, A. et al. The Persian Version of the Personality Beliefs Questionnaire-Short-Form (PBQ-SF): A Psychometric Evaluation. J Rat-Emo Cognitive-Behav Ther 40, 425–439 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-021-00420-4

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