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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Psychopathology
  • Clinical psychology

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  • Cognitive processes linked to anxiety disorders are implicated in paranoia maintenance.
  • Responsibility beliefs, traditionally associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), may be transdiagnostic.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate responsibility beliefs in individuals experiencing persecutory delusions.
  • To compare responsibility beliefs in persecutory delusions with those in OCD, anxiety disorders, and non-clinical controls.

Main Methods:

  • 30 individuals with persecutory delusions completed measures of psychotic symptoms and responsibility beliefs.
  • Participants identified entities responsible for their persecution.
  • Quantitative data were compared with 29 matched non-clinical controls and published data from OCD and anxiety disorder patients.

Main Results:

  • Individuals with persecutory delusions identified various entities responsible for harm.
  • The persecutory delusions group reported significantly higher responsibility beliefs compared to OCD, anxiety disorder, and non-clinical control groups.

Conclusions:

  • Responsibility beliefs appear to be a significant aspect of the phenomenology of persecutory beliefs.
  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis could benefit from incorporating interventions targeting responsibility beliefs, particularly for 'Bad Me' paranoia.