Four Self-Related IRAPs: Analyzing and Interpreting Effects in Light of the DAARRE Model
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ORIGINAL PAPER
Four Self-Related IRAPs: Analyzing and Interpreting Effects in Light of the DAARRE Model Audrey Pidgeon 1 & Ciara McEnteggart 2 & Colin Harte 2
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Dermot Barnes-Holmes 2,3 & Yvonne Barnes-Holmes 2
# Association for Behavior Analysis International 2020
Abstract Two studies are presented that involved exploring four different versions of the implicit relational assessment procedure (IRAP) to target self-relevant stimulus relations. Experiment 1 employed stimuli from previous research that used the IRAP to target stimulus relations pertaining to self, and self-esteem in particular. Experiment 2 aimed to explore the use of different types of stimuli (i.e., pictures as well as words), that again focused on self-related stimulus relations, and their potential correlations with measures of self-esteem and psychological distress. Experiment 1 yielded broadly similar findings to those reported previously. Experiment 2 showed that only one trial type from the IRAP using pictures depicting success versus failure correlated with the measures of self-esteem and psychological distress; none of the remaining 11 trial types across the three IRAPs yielded any significant correlations. The current findings may be seen as relatively progressive when presented in the context of a theoretical model that may be used, albeit in a post-hoc manner, to interpret the specific IRAP response patterns obtained in the current and previously published research. In particular, an in-depth RFT conceptual analysis of the findings using a recently proposed model of IRAP effects is presented. Keywords DAARRE model . IRAP . Self-relevant stimuli . RFT
The current research presents two studies that involved exploring four different versions of the implicit relational assessment procedure (IRAP), each of which focused on selfrelevant stimulus relations. The IRAP is derived directly from a behavior-analytic account of human language and cognition, known as relational frame theory (RFT; Hayes, BarnesHolmes, & Roche, 2001). Although, by no means a requirement, it seems important to interpret results of IRAP research in terms of the theory that generated the method. In the case of the current article, therefore, the two studies presented here illustrate the value in exploring and developing the IRAP as a
* Colin Harte [email protected] 1
Department of Psychology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
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Department of Experimental, Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan, 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK
tool for assessing relational responses with regard to self, and, it is critical to note, also presenting an RFT-based conceptual analysis of the key findings. On the grounds of intellectual honesty, it is important to note that the empirical research reported herein was conducted approximately 8 years ago, but the conceptual analyses are based on work that has emerged only in recent years (e.g., Barnes-Hol
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