Relationship between Awfulizing Irrational Beliefs and Stress among Orphaned Students in Kenyan ....

The study looked into the link between orphaned pupils' awfulizing illogical ideas and stress in public secondary schools. It was decided to use a concurrent triangulation design. 350 orphans at secondary schools in the sub-county were included in the study using simple random sampling, along with 15 principals and 15 Guidance and Counseling instructors who were obtained by purposive sampling, from a target population of 3,842 orphans in secondary schools in the sub-county. The research instruments were tested on 20 orphans in schools that were not part of the study to see if they were reliable. Questionnaires and Focus Group Discussions were utilised to obtain data from orphaned kids, while Principals and Guidance and Counseling teachers were interviewed face to face. Cronbach's alpha scores ranging from 0.672 to 0.672 were used to determine the reliability of surveys (irrational beliefs awfulizing). The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 was used to examine inferential statistics from quantitative data using Pearson's Product Correlation and Regression Analysis. Thematic analysis was done on the qualitative data from the interviews and Focus Group Discussions. There was a statistically significant, but modest, association between awfulizing and stress levels among orphaned students (r=243, N=314, p0.5). The model summary shows that the level of irrational belief for awfulizing accounted for 5.9% of the variation in students' stress levels, as indicated by coefficient R2=.059 in the model. School counsellors should teach students how to recognise irrational, self-deillogical, and absolutist views, as well as how to strongly and emotionally challenge them and replace them with more rational and self-helping beliefs.

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