title: Psychiatric profiles of adolescents in pre-revolutionary Iran.
abstract: In 1977 when this research was undertaken, Iran was witnessing the emergence of growing numbers of distressed adolescents. Psychiatric profiles of adolescent outpatients (N = 110) and undiagnosed adolescents (N = 406) were obtained using an adapted version of the Johns Hopkins Symptom checklist-90. These profiles are compared with those from the American adolescent psychiatric outpatients. The results show that Iranian adolescents register significantly higher distress levels on nearly all the scales. The findings are discussed in the light of prevalent child rearing practices, rapid socio-economic transition and political-cultured factors dominating the pre-revolutionary Iran.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D011057:Politics; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012922:Social Change; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology