Understanding suspicious thinking

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Does Emotion Regulation Mediate the Relationship between Attachment Style and Paranoia?

• IRAS ID

  276512

• Contact name

  Katherine Newman-Taylor

• Contact email

  knt@soton.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Universtiy of Southampton

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 4 months, 30 days

• Research summary

  This study aims to examine the relationship between insecure attachment and paranoia, and determine whether emotion regulation mediates this relationship. The study will use a cross-sectional design, with attachment style as the independent variable, paranoia as the dependent variable, and emotion regulation as the predicted mediator. We will administer quantitative self-report measures of these variables at one time point. The study will recruit participants experiencing paranoia from clinical NHS settings.

• REC name

  East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1

• REC reference

  20/ES/0057

• Date of REC Opinion

  5 Jun 2020

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion