From: Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine
AB | Complete denomination | What do the MMSI-2-R scales assess? | Cronbach’s alpha | McDonald’s omega |
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Pva | Visual and Auditory Perception | Perceptual disturbances whose sensory object is captured visually and auditorily (e.g., seeing ghosts, inexplicable shadows, and hearing voices of deceased beings). | 0.987** | 0.987** |
Pc | Cenesthetic Perception | Perceptual disturbances related to depersonalization and derealization (e.g., not recognizing places that are habitual for the patient and experiencing the sensation of leaving one’s own body as an external observer). | 0.988** | 0.99** |
Po | Olfactory Perception | Perceptual disturbances whose sensory object is captured through smell (e.g., perceiving odors that other people do not perceive or perceiving odors far from the place where the patient is). | 0.984** | 0.985** |
Pt | Touch Perception | Perceptual disturbances whose sensory object is captured using touch or supposed physical contact (e.g., believing that a deceased being has touched you or feeling that something unknown has paralyzed your body). | 0.996** | 0.996** |
Pg | Taste Perception | Perceptual changes related to the taste of food (e.g., perceiving more intense flavors than usual or feeling an unpleasant or “rotten” taste in food that is actually in a good condition). | 0.983** | 0.984** |
Et | Paranoid Experience | Perceptual disturbances related to the belief that supernatural forces seek to control us (e.g., feel the presence of energies or spirits that want to harm you). | 0.949** | 0.949** |