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Paranoia and risk of personality disorder in the general population
Author(s) -
MuñozNegro José E.,
Prudent Cécile,
Gutiérrez Blanca,
Cervilla Jorge A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
personality and mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.193
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1932-863X
pISSN - 1932-8621
DOI - 10.1002/pmh.1443
Subject(s) - paranoia , psychology , personality , population , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , medicine , environmental health
Background We hypothesized that paranoia is associated with personality disorder (PD) in the general population. Method This was a population‐based cross‐sectional survey carried out in Andalusia (Spain) using a representative sample of 4 507 participants. Paranoia was measured using the Green Paranoid Thought Scale, and risk of having a PD was screened using the Standardized Assessment of Personality Abbreviated Scale whilst borderline personality disorder (BPD) was measured with the CEPER‐III Exploratory Interview of Personality disorder. Adjusted Pearsons' correlations between paranoia and PD or BPD were calculated. Results Paranoia was associated with the risk of having PD and, more robustly, with BPD. Both associations held true for both personality outcomes (PD and BPD) when tested for two Green Paranoid Thought Scale paranoia subtypes (persecutory and reference) after accounting for the effects of age, sex and child abuse. Conclusions Paranoia seems to either augment the risk for, or be part of, PD/BPD. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.