Abstract
Aim: To investigate relationships between stress, resilience, recovery style, and persecutory delusions in early psychosis.
Methods: Thirty-nine participants completed questionnaires in a cross-sectional design.
Results: Higher stress, lower resilience, and a sealing-over recovery style predicted higher delusional severity and accounted for 31% of the variance in delusion severity.
Conclusions: Enhancing stress-coping strategies, building resilience, and facilitating an integrative recovery style may be helpful intervention targets for reducing the severity of persecutory delusions in patients with early psychosis.
Methods: Thirty-nine participants completed questionnaires in a cross-sectional design.
Results: Higher stress, lower resilience, and a sealing-over recovery style predicted higher delusional severity and accounted for 31% of the variance in delusion severity.
Conclusions: Enhancing stress-coping strategies, building resilience, and facilitating an integrative recovery style may be helpful intervention targets for reducing the severity of persecutory delusions in patients with early psychosis.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 183-185 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Psychosis |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 16 Jul 2014 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |