RELATIONSHIP OF PERSONALITY TRAITS WITH ANXIETY, DEPRESSIVE AND PTSD SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE. Experience with an Arab college student sample.

Background: The objective was to highlight the profile of Eysenck Personality Questionnaire traits of a sample of Arab college students, and assess the relationship of trait scores with gender, age and symptoms of anxiety, depression, PTSD and grade point average (GPA) score. Similar reports from the Arab world were restricted to neuroticism/extraversion and rarely involved traumatic experience and psychosocial performance.

Methods: Participants (N = 624) were Kuwaiti national college students who completed, in class, the EPQ- 90, Hopkins Symptoms Checklist, and the PTSD Checklist.

Exploratory factor analytical study of depressive symptomatology: an Arab experience with a sample comprising college students, using the revised Beck Depression Inventory.

Background And Objectives: An understanding of the domains of depressive symptomatology could facilitate valid and interpretable comparisons across cultures. The objective of the present study was to assess the factor structure of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) in an Arab sample comprising college students, in comparison to the international data.

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional questionnaire survey of Arab college students in their classrooms over a 1-year period.

Relationship between symptoms of anxiety and depression in a sample of Arab college students using the Hopkins Symptom Checklist 25.

Background: The controversy over the relationship between symptoms of anxiety and depression is an enduring issue. Various models have been proposed to explain this relationship. We explored the following research questions.

Dimensional and hierarchical models of depression using the Beck Depression Inventory-II in an Arab college student sample.

Background: An understanding of depressive symptomatology from the perspective of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) could facilitate valid and interpretable comparisons across cultures. The objectives of the study were: (i) using the responses of a sample of Arab college students to the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) in CFA, to compare the "goodness of fit" indices of the original dimensional three-and two-factor first-order models, and their modifications, with the corresponding hierarchical models (i.e.

Psychopathological status, behavior problems, and family adjustment of Kuwaiti children whose fathers were involved in the first gulf war.

Objectives: Following the end of the Gulf War that resulted in the liberation of Kuwait, there are no reports on the impact of veterans' traumatic exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on their children. We compared the severity of anxiety, depression, deviant behavior and poor family adjustment among the children of a stratified random sample of four groups of Kuwaiti military men, viz: the retired; an active -in-the-army group (AIA) (involved in duties at the rear); an in-battle group (IB) (involved in combat); and a prisoners -of- war (POWs) group. Also, we assessed the association of father's PTSD/combat status and mother's characteristics with child psychosocial outcomes.

Prevalence and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder among Kuwaiti military men according to level of involvement in the first Gulf War.

First, to compare the prevalence and intensity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Kuwaiti military men, divided into four groups (50 subjects each) according to degree of exposure to war trauma: (1) the retired (retired before the invasion); (2) an active-in-the-army group (AIA) (involved in duties at the rear only); (3) an in-battle (IB) group (involved in combat); and (4) prisoners of war (POWs-captured during combat). Second, to compare the severity of impact of event, comorbid depression, and anxiety among the groups. Third, to evaluate the contribution of self-esteem and locus of control (LOC).

Post-traumatic stress disorder among wives of Kuwaiti veterans of the first Gulf War.

Objectives: To assess post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among wives of Gulf War Kuwaiti military men, divided into four groups according to degree of combat exposure: the retired, an active-in-the-army group (AIA) (involved in duties at the rear); an in-battle group (IB) (involved in combat); and a prisoners-of-war (POWs) group. To assess the relationship between wives' PTSD and indices of family adjustment, husbands' level of combat exposure, and PTSD status.

Method: One hundred and seventy-six wives were assessed with the PTSD Checklist for DSM-IV, the family adjustment device, and for anxiety/depression.