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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2023 Mar 1;323:115129. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115129

Table 3.

Response frequencies to label and stigma items.

Appropriateness
“How much does each of these
describe your experience?”
Associated stigma
“Larry experiences ______. Do you
feel more positive about Larry, more
negative, or exactly the same?”
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
Anxiety 4 (2.2%) 6 (3.3%) 18 (9.9%) 50 (27.6%) 103 (56.9%) 3 (1.7%) 18 (9.9%) 94 (51.9%) 41 (22.7%) 25 (13.8%)
Paranoia 11 (6.1%) 37 (20.4%) 46 (25.4%) 49 (27.1%) 38 (21.0%) 10 (5.7%) 35 (19.9%) 91 (51.7%) 31 (17.6%) 9 (5.1%)
Persecutory thoughts 19 (10.7%) 26 (14.6%) 53 (29.8%) 53 (29.8%) 27 (15.2%) 12 (6.7%) 38 (21.1%) 104 (57.8%) 19 (10.6%) 7 (3.9%)
Suspiciousness 10 (5.6%) 28 (15.6%) 40 (22.3%) 57 (31.8%) 44 (24.6%) 7 (3.9%) 34 (18.9%) 99 (55.0%) 30 (16.7%) 10 (5.6%)
Threat thoughts 15 (6.5%) 32 (17.7%) 42 (23.2%) 59 (32.6%) 33 (18.2%) 10 (5.5%) 48 (26.5%) 82 (45.3%) 28 (15.5%) 13 (7.2%)
1 = Not at all, 2 = A little bit, 3 = Somewhat, 4 = Very much, 5 = Definitely 1 = Much more negative, 2 = A little bit more negative, 3 = Exactly the same, 4 = A little bit more positive, 5 = Much more positive