YACAMBÚ UNIVERSITY
ACADEMIC VICE RECTORATE
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Line of research: integral health
Program: health psychology-clinical psychology
DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND IRRATIONAL BELIEFS IN
PATIENTS ATTENDING THE PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF THE CENTRAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
ANTONIO MARÍA PINEDA
Author: Elvis González
Tutor: Rafael Angulo
Month and year: October 2022
Abstract
The aim of this research was to analyze the relationship between depressive
symptomatology and irrational beliefs in patients attending the Department of
Psychiatry and Psychology of the Hospital Central Universitario Antonio María
Pineda. It was developed through the positivist paradigm with quantitative
approach, in a non-experimental field design, descriptive correlation and crosssectional. The sample consisted of 30 patients. The Beck Depression Inventory
(BDI-II) and the Calvete and Cardeñoso Irrational Beliefs Test were used. The
tabulation of the data was done using the Microsoft Office Excel program, and
the analysis and processing of the data through the Statistical Package for the
Social Sciences (SPSS) version 2. Through the results and their interpretation
it is evident that the depressive symptomatology is in a moderate range 22.87,
being the irrational beliefs present of medium value High self-expectations
11.03, Dependence 20.17, Perfectionism 14.60, and being found in high value
of irrational belief Indefension about change 17.87. Five significant correlations
were found in the research, these being between the variable depressive
symptomatology and Need for approval; depressive symptomatology and
Emotional Irresponsibility; Physical or somatic symptoms and Emotional
Irresponsibility; Cognitive and emotional alterations and Emotional
Irresponsibility; and finally, Cognitive and emotional alterations and Need for
approval. It is recommended to investigate the variables in other populations.
Descriptors: depressive symptomatology, irrational beliefs, patients.