Measurement invariance of the Revised-Green Paranoid Thought Scale across Black and White Americans.

ABSTRACT: Given the culturally diverse landscape of mental healthcare and research, ensuring that our psychological constructs are measured equivalently across diverse populations is critical. One construct for which there is significant potential for inequitable assessment is paranoia, a prominent feature in psychotic disorders that can also be driven by culture and racial marginalization. This study examined measurement invariance-an analytic technique to rigorously investigate whether a given construct is being measured similarly across groups-of the Revised-Green Paranoid Thought Scale (R-GPTS; Freeman et al., 2021) across Black and White Americans in the general population. Racial group differences in self-reported paranoia were also examined. The analytic sample consisted of 480 non-Hispanic W

SUBMITTER: Wolny J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10961092 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature