Definition and Measurement of Children's Emotional and Behavioural Problems “A Review Article

     The current literature on children's behaviour problems provides several definitions, primarily the two broad-based categories: emotional (internalizing) and behavioural (externalizing). Although children's emotional and behavioural impairments may be evident at the personal, social, learning, and skills levels, the debate on the influence of culture is at stake. Besides giving general review about these issues the aim of the present paper is to expose the reader to have an idea about how behaviour problems are quantified. The article has also attempted to give an overview of the nature and structure of some of the valid and reliable instruments that are universally employed to measure childhood behavioural deviance.   &nbsp

The Islamic Religious Observance Scale; development, psychometric properties and associations with demographic factors in a Sudanese sample

This study reports the development and a preliminary analysis of the psychometric properties of the Islamic Religious Observance Scale “IROS”. The IROS measures the concept of religiosity from an Islamic perspective. One hundred Sudanese Muslim adults completed the Islamic Religious Observance Scale. The IROS was found to have satisfactory test-retest reliability, good internal consistency and good construct validity. The author believes that the IROS might have utility for screening and research purposes, not only as an assessment and outcome measure but also for testing hypotheses about connections between religion and mental health in the Sudan and other Islamic countries