Worry, intolerance of uncertainty, negative urgency, and their associations to paranoid thinking

Paranoia exists on a continuum with normal experience. Worry has been identified as a risk variable for paranoid thinking within non-clinical populations; however, studies have focused exclusively on the association between worry and persecutory beliefs, despite paranoia encompassing other domains (interpersonal sensitivities, mistrust, ideas of reference). Further, it is possible that worry-related processes account for more variance in …