Cross-cultural validation of the revised Green et al., paranoid thoughts scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With efforts increasing worldwide to understand and treat paranoia, there is a pressing need for cross-culturally valid assessments of paranoid beliefs. The recently developed Revised Green et al., Paranoid Thoughts Scale (R-GPTS) constitutes an easy to administer self-report assessment of mild ideas of reference and more severe persecutory thoughts. Moreover, it comes with clinical cut-offs for increased usability in research and clinical practice. With multiple translations of the R-GPTS already available and in use, a formal test of its measurement invariance is now needed.

Methods

Using data from a multinational cross-sectional online survey in the UK, USA, Australia, Germany, and Hong Kong (N = 2510), we performed confirmatory factory analyses on the R

SUBMITTER: Schlier B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413342 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature