The cross-cultural differences in clinical features as measured by Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents: A comparative Study Between Egyptian and Saudi Adolescents

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This study aims to investigate the cross-cultural differences in clinical features of MMPI-A basic scales: Hypochondria, depression, hysteria, Male/female, psychopathic deviation, paranoia psychasthenia, schizophrenia, hypomania, social introversion and Personality psychopathology (Psych-5)AGGR, PSYC, DISC, NEGE, INTR between samples from Egyptians and Saudi adolescent's.
The samples of the study contain 224 Egyptian (155 femal-69 male) and 165 Saudi (121 femail-44 male) with mean age 16.0283±.91196. MMPI-A test used to investigate the hypotheses of the study, the result indicates that there is a significant difference between Egyptian and Saudi adolescent's in hypochondria, depression, paranoia, psychasthenia and social introversion scales, the means of Egyptian females were higher than the Saudi female's means, but the mean score of Saudi females was higher than Egyptian female in hysteria.
According to Personality psychopathology (Psych-5), the results indicates that there is a significant difference between groups in AGGR, PSYC, DISC, NEGE.

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  • Receive Date: 10 April 2016
  • Revise Date: 15 May 2016
  • Accept Date: 06 June 2016

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