The Kuwait University Anxiety Scale: results for 9,031 Saudi students.
Author: Abdel Khalek AM, Al Damaty AG.
Source:
Psychological Reports, 93(1), 203-212.
The Kuwait University Anxiety Scale was administered to 9,031 male (n = 4,143)
and female (n = 4,888) Saudis. They were students in secondary schools (n =
4.793) and university undergraduates (n = 4,238) recruited from scattered
geographical regions of the Kingdom of Saudi ArabiAges ranged from 15 to 26
years, mean age 19.5 yr. (SD = 2.8). The scale displayed good alphas (from .85 to
.88), retest reliability (from .94 to .95), as well as good criterion-related
validity (from .63 to .73) against the Trait subscale of the State-Trait Anxiety
Inventory. Three highly loaded factors were extracted: Cognitive/Affective,
Subjective, and Somatic anxiety. Sex differences overshadow age differences as
sex-related differences were significant between the age groups from 16 to 25
years, i.e., females attained higher mean scores than their male peers. Saudi
students attained means similar to those of Kuwaiti students, but both groups
have significantly higher mean scores than American and Spanish college students.
By and large, the scale can be recommended for use in research among students in
the Saudi context.