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标题：Safety Behaviours, Rumination and Trait Paranoia in a Non-Clinical Sample
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作者：Jennifer Simpson ; Bryony MacGregor ; Kate Cavanagh 等
期刊名称：Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
电子版ISSN：2043-8087
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：4
页码：612-623
DOI：10.5127/jep.027212
语种：English
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：Cognitive behavioural models of persecutory delusions hypothesise that paranoid threat beliefs are maintained by cognitive and behavioural processes which promote confirmatory information and reduce disconfirmatory information. Such mechanisms include engagement with safety behaviours and iterative, self-focused cognitive processes such as worry and rumination. This paper reports a study investigating the relationship between safety behaviours, rumination and paranoia in a non-clinical sample (N = 133). A single group cross-sectional design was utilised. Strong correlations between these factors were identified, and were not accounted for by negative affect. Hierarchical multiple regression revealed that engagement in safety behaviours and rumination explained 49% of the variance of paranoia when combined with age, gender and negative affect. This paper provides some evidence for the role of safety behaviours and rumination in the presence of paranoid threat beliefs. Further research is needed to explore the causal relationship between these variables, and their explanatory power within a clinical sample. If replicated, these findings suggest that mental health practitioners would be wise to consider these variables in the assessment, formulation and treatment of paranoia.
关键词：paranoia; rumination; safety behaviours; threat beliefs; persecutory delusions