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1、JournalofAbnormalPsychology©2011AmericanPsychologicalAssociation2011,Vol.120,No.3,6916990021-843X/11/$12.00DOI:10.1037/a0022856ImplicitandExplicitSelf-EsteemDiscrepanciesinParanoiaandDepressionCarmenValiente,DoloresCantero,CarmeloVa´zquez,A´lvaroSanchez,Marı´aProvencio,andReginaEspinosaC
2、omplutenseUniversityThemainpurposeofthepresentstudywastoexamineimplicitandexplicitself-esteem(SE)inpatientswithpersecutorydelusions.Insamplesofparanoidpatients,depressedpatients,andhealthycontrols,implicitSEwasassessedusingtheexperimentalgo/no-goassociationtask,whereasexplicitSEwasmeasur
3、edusing2self-reportingquestionnaires:theself-worthsubscaleoftheWorldAssumptionScale(Janoff-Bulman,1989)andtheself-acceptancesubscaleoftheScalesofPsychologicalWell-Being(Ryff&Keyes,1995).OuranalysisrevealedthatdepressedpatientsshowedlowerexplicitSEthandidparanoidandhealthycontrolparticipa
4、nts.However,participantswithpersecutorydelusionshadsignif-icantlylowerimplicitSEscoresthandidhealthycontrols.Weinterpretthediscrepanciesobservedbetweenovertandcovertmeasuresintheparanoidgroupaspsychologicaldefensemechanisms.Thepresentstudystressestheclinicalandtheoreticalimportanceoftheu
5、seofimplicitmeasuresinpsychopathology.Keywords:implicitcognition,self-esteem,schizophrenia,persecutorydelusions,paranoiaRecenttheoreticalmodelsofparanoiahaveincorporateddatapointofview,persecutorydelusionshavebeenclaimedtofunctionfromresearchrelatedtodysfunctionalassumptionsandcognitivea
6、saself-servingbias,leadingindividualstoblameothersforschemas(Bentall,Corcoran,Howard,Blackwood,&Kinderman,adverseexperiencesinordertoprotecttheirSE(Bentalletal.,2001;Freeman,Garety,Kuipers,Fowler,&Bebbington,2002).2001).However,FreemanandGarety(2003)proposedthatdelu-Animportantpartofther
7、esearchoncognitiveschemasinpsy-sionalexplanationsdirectlyreflectnegativeself-beliefs,whicharechosisisrelatedtothecontentsofself-schemasandmorespecif-linkedtoanxietyandemotionalconcernsrelatedtothreateningicallytopatientsself-esteem(SE).Thereisgrowingevidenceofcontent.Alon