ملخص بحث بعنوان : الفروق بين الجنسين في الأرق لدى عينات عربية.

اسم الباحث: الاستاذ الدكتور/ أحمد محمد عبد الخالق

الأستاذ بجامعة الإسكندرية - كلية الآداب - قسم علم النفس

العنوان الأصلي للبحث:

 Gender differences in self-reported insomnia in an Arab population

 مكان نشر البحث :  

MANKIND QUARTERLY 2017 58:1 169-179

Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
 Alexandria University , Alexandria, Egypt

Address for correspondence: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt.

 Email: aabdel-khalek@hotmail.com

Background: Insomnia is one of the most commonly reported complaints seen in medicine. Insomnia has physiological, psychological, and social deleterious effects. Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the gender differences in insomnia in four Arab convenience samples.

 Methods: Samples of children, adolescents, undergraduates, and employees took part in this study (N = 10,478). They responded to the Arabic Scale of Insomnia (ASI).

This scale has good psychometric parameters. Results: Male children obtained a significantly higher mean ASI score than did their female counterparts.

 However, female adolescents, undergraduates, and employees obtained significantly higher total mean ASI scores than did their male counterparts. The biggest gender difference was found among employees, whereas the smallest was in undergraduates.

Female children obtained the lowest mean score on the ASI. 

Conclusion: In this Arab population, the typical gender differences in insomnia (female>male) begin in adolescence. One possible explanation of the high score of adolescent, undergraduate, and employee females on insomnia is their higher scores on neuroticism, anxiety, and fear relative to their male peers.