Table 1.
Self-reported psychiatric problems in the general population of Moroccan adolescents (N = 375)
| BSI subscales | Moroccan adolescents M (SD) |
Male (n = 144–169)a M (SD) |
Female (n = 163–199)a M (SD) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somatization | 1.25 (0.83) | 0.99 (0.78) | 1.47 (0.81) | < 0.001 |
| Obsessive compulsiveness | 1.73 (0.83) | 1.53 (0.82) | 1.90 (0.81) | < 0.001 |
| Psychoticism | 1.39 (0.87) | 1.26 (0.81) | 1.50 (0.9) | 0.02 |
| Depression | 1.22 (0.89) | 1.07 (0.81) | 1.34 (0.94) | 0.01 |
| Interpersonal sensitivity | 1.52 (0.94) | 1.17 (0.83) | 1.81 (0.92) | < 0.001 |
| Hostility | 1.29 (0.82) | 1.19 (0.76) | 1.38 (0.86) | 0.06 |
| Phobic anxiety | 1.16 (0.82) | 0.96 (0.78) | 1.34 (0.82) | < 0.001 |
| Anxiety | 1.58 (0.87) | 1.24 (0.74) | 1.84 (0.88) | < 0.001 |
| Paranoid ideation | 1.48 (0.83) | 1.36 (0.81) | 1.59 (0.83) | 0.02 |
| GSI | 1.38 (0.68) | 1.20 (0.67) | 1.54 (0.65) | < 0.001 |
aThe number of responses varies for the different subscales of the BSI