Deconstructing the relationships between self-esteem and paranoia in early psychosis: an experience sampling study.

CONCLUSIONS: Different types, measures and dimensions of self-esteem are differentially related to paranoia in early psychosis and are influenced by contextual factors in daily-life. This yields a more complex picture of these associations and offers insights that might aid psychological interventions.
PRACTITIONER POINTS: Different measures (trait and momentary) and dimensions (positive and negative) of explicit self-esteem are distinctly related to paranoia across risk and first-episode stages of psychosis. Explicit, but not implicit, self-esteem is associated with real-life paranoia in incipient psychosis. Anxiety boosted the association of poor self-esteem and paranoia ideation in daily-life. Social closeness, but feeling cared for by others in particular, interacts with self-esteem tempering the expression of paranoia in real life.
PMID: 32862467 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The British Journal of Clinical Psychology - August 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Monsonet M, Kwapil TR, Barrantes-Vidal N Tags: Br J Clin Psychol Source Type: research