Abdel-Sattar I, Al-Nafie A
New Center Mental Health Services, Detroit, Mich.
Psychopathology. 1987;20(5-6):250-4. doi: 10.1159/000284508.
The study presents data on 280 Saudi Arabian University students regarding their perception and concern about social-cultural changes in their society, and comparison of their scores on these variables with their responses on some psychopathology measures. All students were administered an interview schedule evaluating perception and concern (upset--not upset) about sociocultural changes, the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List, the Depression Symptomatology Scale, and a Symptom Inventory. Our results showed that: (1) Substantial numbers were aware of the social and cultural transformations in Saudi Arabia. However, Saudis were, on the whole, less upset about adverse social processes than comparative American samples; (2) depressive and other psychopathology symptoms were reported frequently, and (3) subjects who showed higher levels of concern about sociocultural changes obtained the lowest depression scores, indicating that those who were not upset by social transformation were generally not depressed. The relationship between psychopathology and perception of social nuances was discussed in light of the view that less depressed people are more capable of handling stresses related to personal processing of social variables.
该研究呈现了280名沙特阿拉伯大学生对其社会中社会文化变化的认知与担忧的数据，并将他们在这些变量上的得分与他们在一些精神病理学测量中的反应进行了比较。所有学生都接受了一份访谈问卷，评估他们对社会文化变化的认知与担忧（不安——不不安）、多重情感形容词检查表、抑郁症状量表和症状清单。我们的结果表明：（1）相当多的人意识到沙特阿拉伯的社会和文化变革。然而，总体而言，沙特人对不良社会进程的不安程度低于美国的对照样本；（2）抑郁和其他精神病理学症状的报告频率较高，（3）对社会文化变化表现出更高担忧程度的受试者抑郁得分最低，这表明那些对社会变革不感到不安的人通常没有抑郁。鉴于较少抑郁的人更有能力应对与个人处理社会变量相关的压力这一观点，讨论了精神病理学与对社会细微差别认知之间的关系。
