The present study is number 14 in an Arabic project on happiness, wellbeing, and religiosity. The aims of the current research were to estimate happiness rate, and explore its associations with variables of well-being (physical health, mental health, happiness, satisfaction with life), and religiosity. A sample of university students from Bahrain took part in this study (N = 233). Results indicated that this sample obtained a high rate of happiness approaching the mean scores of happiness among their counterparts from the Arabic Gulf (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman). They obtained higher rates of happiness than the other Arab countries. There were no significant sex-related differences in the study scales. Correlations between the well-being scales were statistically significant, whereas the self-rating scale of religiosity was not significantly correlated with all of them. Principal components analysis disclosed a single component labeled "well-being and religiosity". It was recommended to replicate this study with a probability sample from the general population in Bahrain.
Recent surveys estimate the prevalence rates of obsession-compulsion (OC) disorder as higher than the earlier surveys. Furthermore, many empirical studies indicated the high incidence of OC symptoms among the non-clinical population. The aims of this study were (a) to develop and validate a revised version of the Arabic Scale of Obsession-Compulsion (ASOC-R), (b) to estimate its psychometric characteristics, and (c) to determine its normative Egyptian data. Results indicated that the alpha and retest reliabilities, and the criterion-related and factorial validity of the ASOC-R were high. Normative results were computed based on a large sample of college students (N = 1,501) as follows: (1) means and standard deviations, (2) normative scores, and (3) percentile scores. No significant sex-related differences in the ASOC-R were detected. The scale has three versions: Arabic, English, and Persian. It was concluded that the ASOC-R has psychometric improvements on the original copy. Therefore, the new revised version may be recommended for use in abnormal, clinical, and personality psychology studies.