Hypothesis 2: Associations of Paranoia With Affective Processes
The associations of paranoia with the cognitive-affective processes are shown in table 1. It can be seen that higher levels of state paranoia were associated with higher ratings of anticipation of threat to the self, negative interpretations of ambiguous events, private and public self-consciousness, and negative ideas about the self. Paranoia was unrelated to anticipating positive or neutral events occurring to the self or to any type of event happening to another person, ie, there was a specific association of paranoia with anticipating negative events occurring to the self. The self-focus visual analog scales supported the association of self-consciousness with state paranoia, but there was also an association of paranoia with being focused upon the surroundings.