Obsession-compulsion in college students in the United States and Kuwait

A M Abdel-Khalek; D Lester

doi:10.2466/pr0.1999.85.3.799

Obsession-compulsion in college students in the United States and Kuwait

Psychol Rep. 1999 Dec;85(3 Pt 1):799-800. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1999.85.3.799.

Authors

A M Abdel-Khalek¹, D Lester

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, Keifan, Kuwait.

PMID: 10672738
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.85.3.799

Abstract

American (n = 132) and Kuwaiti (n = 204) undergraduates responded to the Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale in English and Arabic languages, respectively. Students in Kuwait scored as more obsessive-compulsive than their American counterparts.

Publication types

Comparative Study

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Female
Humans
Kuwait / epidemiology
Male
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / diagnosis
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / epidemiology*
Reproducibility of Results
Students / psychology*
United States / epidemiology
Universities