Relation between image of God with paranoid ideation in college students

AbstractThe aim of the current research was to investigate the relationship between image of God and Paranoid Ideation in Tehran and Iranian Medical Sciences Universities. In this study 469 students were selected by means of proportional sampling procedure. The Image of God inventory and the scale of Paranoid Ideation in Symptom Checklist-90-Revised were administered on them. Analysis of data revealed that the magnitude of Paranoid Ideation can be predicted from the quality of student's images of God. Moreover, data revealed that students who had a positive and accepting image of God were lower in Paranoid Ideation