Table 4.

Correlation between PPS factor scores and global scores and convergent validity criteria

	Persecutory threat		Paranoid conspiracy		Interpersonal mistrust		Pandemic Paranoia Global score
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
R-GPTS paranoid ideation	0.654	<0.001	0.458	<0.001	0.427	<0.001	0.678	<0.001
R-GPTS ideas of reference	0.574	<0.001	0.430	<0.001	0.424	<0.001	0.609	<0.001
COVID-anxiety	0.227	<0.001	−0.012	0.535	0.384	<0.001	0.223	<0.001
Perceived risk of infection
Personal risk, 1 month	0.313	<0.001	0.064	0.001	0.299	<0.001	0.294	<0.001
Personal risk, 3 months	0.317	<0.001	0.070	0.001	0.314	<0.001	0.302	<0.001
Personal risk, 6 months	0.356	<0.001	0.115	<0.001	0.325	<0.001	0.344	<0.001
Infection severity, 1 month	0.134	<0.001	−0.043	0.033	0.271	<0.001	0.128	<0.001
Infection severity, 3 months	0.175	<0.001	−0.015	0.438	0.288	<0.001	0.169	<0.001
Infection severity; 6 months	0.183	<0.001	0.000	0.999	0.282	<0.001	0.178	<0.001
General conspiracy mentality	0.171	<0.001	0.538	<0.001	0.247	<0.001	0.317	<0.001