Persecution and Deservedness Scale

Melo, Sara Sigmaringa; Corcoran, Rhiannon; Shryane, Nick; Bentall, Richard P.

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“…The statements assessed suspiciousness and paranoid ideation: "Right now I worry that others are plotting against me", "I believe that some people want to hurt me deliberately", (Cronbach's α = 0.89), and were derived from the Persecution and Deservedness Scale (Melo et al, 2009), and have been used in previous ESM studies (Udachina et al, 2012;Varese et al, 2011). Principal component analysis (PCA) confirmed that both items loaded on one factor (eigenvalue > 1), explaining 90% of the variability.…”

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The dynamics of attachment insecurity and paranoid thoughts: An experience sampling study

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Psychiatry Research

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It has been proposed that insecure attachment can have adverse effects on the course of psychosis once symptoms have emerged. There is longitudinal evidence that increased insecure attachment is associated with increased severity of psychotic symptoms. The present study examined whether in the flow of daily life attachment insecurity fluctuates, whether elevated stress precedes the occurrence of attachment insecurity, and whether elevated attachment insecurity precedes the occurrence of paranoia. Twenty clinical participants with a psychosis-spectrum diagnosis and twenty controls were studied over six consecutive days using the experience sampling method (ESM). The findings revealed that fluctuations in attachment insecurity were significantly higher in the clinical group, that elevated stress predicted a subsequent increase in attachment insecurity, and that elevated attachment insecurity predicted a subsequent increase in paranoia; this effect was not observed in auditory hallucinations once co-occurring symptoms were controlled for. Finally, although previous ESM studies have shown that low self-esteem precedes the occurrence of paranoia, attachment insecurity continued to predict paranoia even when self-esteem was controlled for. The findings suggest that attachment security may be associated with a lower risk of paranoia, and that psychological interventions should address attachment beliefs and work towards establishing a sense of attachment security.

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The dynamics of attachment insecurity and paranoid thoughts: An experience sampling study

Sitko

Varese

Sellwood

et al. 2016

Psychiatry Research

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“…Our sample of help-seeking participants was nearly as highly paranoid, but reported higher levels of 'bad-me' deservedness, as a sample of psychiatric in-patients reported elsewhere (Melo et al 2009). With regard to deservedness, our sample was actually more like the student sample reported elsewhere, both in terms of overall level and in the tendency for higher paranoia to be associated with higher deservedness.…”

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“…However, it is higher than the average paranoia score of 1.18 (S.D. = 0.78) for the sample of UK university students reported by Melo et al (2009) (t 433 = 11.95, p < 0.0001). If we take a score of 2.74, 2 S.D.s above their student mean, as an arbitrary cut-off for high levels of paranoia, then 44% of the current sample are above this level.…”

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“…In order to test the specific prediction that ARMS patients would score higher on deservedness than patients with established psychosis, we compared them with the patient sample reported by Melo et al Overall, on the basis of the above comparisons, our sample appears closer to the students than to the in-patients in terms of deservedness. The patient sample (Melo et al 2009) had a highly truncated deservedness distribution, with a significant number of patients giving entirely 'poor-me' responses to all questions, i.e. a score of exactly zero.…”

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“…An implication of these observations is that deservedness judgments change during the development of psychosis and that individuals who fall in the high-risk group and who have emerging paranoid symptoms should exhibit lower levels of paranoia but higher levels of deservedness than patients with established psychosis, but higher levels of paranoia and lower levels of deservedness than individuals not suffering from mental illness (Bentall & Kinderman, 2008). We aimed to test these predictions by comparing the data from our ARMS patients with data previously obtained by Melo et al (2009) from psychiatric in-patients suffering from persecutory delusions and healthy controls.…”

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Negative cognition, affect, metacognition and dimensions of paranoia in people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: a multi-level modelling analysis

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n Morrison, A.P. et al. (2015) Negative cognition, affect, metacognition and dimensions of paranoia in people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: a multi-level modelling analysis. Psychological Medicine, 45(12), pp. 2675-2684.There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it.http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/109839/ Background. Paranoia is one of the commonest symptoms of psychosis but has rarely been studied in a population at risk of developing psychosis. Based on existing theoretical models, including the proposed distinction between 'poor me' and 'bad me' paranoia, we aimed to test specific predictions about associations between negative cognition, metacognitive beliefs and negative emotions and paranoid ideation and the belief that persecution is deserved (deservedness).Method. We used data from 117 participants from the Early Detection and Intervention Evaluation for people at risk of psychosis (EDIE-2) trial of cognitive-behaviour therapy, comparing them with samples of psychiatric in-patients and healthy students from a previous study. Multi-level modelling was utilized to examine predictors of both paranoia and deservedness, with post-hoc planned comparisons conducted to test whether person-level predictor variables were associated differentially with paranoia or with deservedness.Results. Our sample of at-risk mental state participants was not as paranoid, but reported higher levels of 'bad-me' deservedness, compared with psychiatric in-patients. We found several predictors of paranoia and deservedness. Negative beliefs about self were related to deservedness but not paranoia, whereas negative beliefs about others were positively related to paranoia but negatively with deservedness. Both depression and negative metacognitive beliefs about paranoid thinking were specifically related to paranoia but not deservedness.Conclusions. This study provides evidence for the role of negative cognition, metacognition and negative affect in the development of paranoid beliefs, which has implications for psychological interventions and our understanding of psychosis.

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Persecution and Deservedness Scale

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The dynamics of attachment insecurity and paranoid thoughts: An experience sampling study

The dynamics of attachment insecurity and paranoid thoughts: An experience sampling study

Negative cognition, affect, metacognition and dimensions of paranoia in people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: a multi-level modelling analysis

Post-Traumatic Growth and Stress-Related Responses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a National Representative Sample: The Role of Positive Core Beliefs About the World and Others

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