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
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]