Table 4. Summary of retained items and communalities after extraction for Part B of the green paranoid thoughts scale (N = 166).
Item | Factor Loading | Communalities |
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People have been hostile towards me on purpose | 0.86 | 0.75 |
It was difficult to stop thinking about people wanting to make me feel bad | 0.82 | 0.67 |
I was preoccupied with thoughts of people trying to upset me deliberately | 0.81 | 0.66 |
I was annoyed because others wanted to deliberately upset me | 0.79 | 0.63 |
Certain individuals have had it in for me | 0.66 | 0.43 |
I was angry that someone wanted to hurt me | 0.63 | 0.4 |
I was distressed by people wanting to harm me in some way | 0.63 | 0.4 |
I was sure certain people did things in order to annoy me | 0.63 | 0.39 |
The thought people were persecuting me played on my mind | 0.58 | 0.34 |
I was distressed by being persecuted | 0.55 | 0.3 |
Cronbach’s alpha | 0.88 |
Note: Factor loadings greater than .36 were retained and parcelled together to create a composite, single factor representing levels of paranoia [79]