title: Mechanisms underlying REBT in mood disordered patients: predicting depression from the hybrid model of learning.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Jackson's (2005, 2008a) hybrid model of learning identifies a number of learning mechanisms that lead to the emergence and maintenance of the balance between rationality and irrationality. We test a general hypothesis that Jackson's model will predict depressive symptoms, such that poor learning is related to depression. We draw comparisons between Jackson's model and Ellis' (2004) Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Theory (REBT) and thereby provide a set of testable learning mechanisms potentially underlying REBT.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results from 80 patients diagnosed with depression completed the learning styles profiler (LSP; Jackson, 2005) and two measures of depression. Results provide support for the proposed model of learning and further evidence that low rationality is a key predictor of depression.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We conclude that the hybrid model of learning has the potential to explain some of the learning and cognitive processes related to the development and maintenance of irrational beliefs and depression.
authors.affiliation: University of New South Wales, Australia. c.jackson@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: Chris J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Izadikah
authors.forename: Tian P S
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Oei
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003071:Cognition; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003469:Culture; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011617:Psychotherapy, Rational-Emotive; D055815:Young Adult