Optimism and Pessimism in Kuwaiti and American College Students.
Background: Cross-cultural comparisons in optimism (0) and pessimism (P) are few. Kuwait and the United States have different languages, situations, history and culture. On this basis, there is good reason to hypothesise that there are significant differences between the two countries in 0 and P. Ai...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Social Psychiatry Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 110 - 127 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
March 2006
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=510542820&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 510542820 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00207640 ISP jtl: International Journal of Social Psychiatry issn: 00207640 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: March 2006 vid: 52 iid: 2 pid: 2171 pub: Sage Publications, Ltd. artinfo: ui: 510542820 10.1177/0020764006062092 ppf: 110 ppct: 17 formats: tig: atl: Optimism and Pessimism in Kuwaiti and American College Students. aug: au: Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed Lester, David su: Psychology of college students Cross-cultural studies Optimism Pessimism College students United States Kuwait sug: subj: United States Kuwait Psychology of college students Cross-cultural studies Optimism Pessimism College students ab: Background: Cross-cultural comparisons in optimism (0) and pessimism (P) are few. Kuwait and the United States have different languages, situations, history and culture. On this basis, there is good reason to hypothesise that there are significant differences between the two countries in 0 and P. Aims: To explore the differences in, and correlates of, 0 and P in Kuwaiti and American college students. Method: Two samples of male and female undergraduates were recruited from Kuwait (N - 460) and the United States (N = 273). Their mean ages were 21.9 ± 3.0 and 23.2 ± 6.5, respectively. All respondents completed the Arabic Scale of Optimism and Pessimism (ASOP), the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire, the Ego-grasping Scale, the Death Obsession Scale, the Kuwait University Anxiety Scale and the Arabic Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. Kuwaitis responded to the scales in Arabic, and Americans responded in English. Results: The ASOP displayed good internal consistency, a meaningful factorial structure and interpretable factors in both countries. It was found that 0 correlated negatively with the above scale scores, while the correlations of P were positive, indicating the convergent validity of the ASOP. The Kuwaiti mean score on 0 was significantly lower than the mean of their American counterparts, and vice versa for P Conclusion: The findings are explained in the light of previous results on personality and psychopathology questionnaires in Kuwaiti and American societies. There is a need to investigate 0 and P in different cultures. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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