TY - JOUR JF - sjimu JO - J. Ilam Uni. Med. Sci. VL - 22 IS - 3 PY - 2014 Y1 - 2014/7/01 TI - Comparison of Irrational Beliefs and Happiness in intelligent and normal students TT - مقایسه باورهای غیرمنطقی و شادکامی در دانش آموزان تیزهوش با عادی N2 - Introduction: An intelligent child, by defin-ition, makes informed judgements drawing upon his supreme intellectual capability and mental abilities, and enjoys higher psyc-hological health and happiness than do other normal children. The present study compared irrational beliefs and happiness in two groups of normal and intelligent stu-dents to answer the question whether inte-lligence contributed to the level of irrational beliefs and happiness in students. Materials & Methods: This comparative study was carried out on intelligent and no-rmal female students in Ardebil high sch-ools in educational year of 2008-9. From the schools, 60 students (30 intelligent and 30 normal) were selected through simple random sampling method. We collected data using Ellis' Irrational Beliefs Questio-nnaire and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire that are consisted of 66 and 29 items, respectively. The data were analyzed with independent t-test. Findings: The obtained t values for irrati-onal beliefs and happiness was shown to be significant. So that, the mean scores of irrati-onal beliefs in intelligent students were lower than those in normal students. Furth-ermore, their happiness rate was higher. Our findings also indicated a significant differe-nce between intelligent and normal students in terms of irrational beliefs and happiness. Discussion & Conclusions: Intelligent stud-ents have a more flexibility regarding their internal and external experiences and display higher capabilities in reassessment and mod-ification of irrational beliefs and values. SP - 27 EP - 33 AU - dastghaib, z AU - narimani, m AU - ghobadi dashed bi, k AU - hosaini, f AU - gharli pour, z AU - imanzad, m AU - gholami, m AU - ghaitaspour, k AD - KW - Irrational beliefs KW - happiness KW - intelligent KW - girls UR - http://sjimu.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-1943-en.html ER -