The Arabic version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) was administered to 200 students enrolled at the University of Bahrain. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic techniques, I obtained reasonable validity and reliability data for the BDI-II. Three oblique factors provided the most parsimonious and meaningful solution for students' responses. Findings of this study generally provide strong support for the psychometric soundness of the BDI-II as a measure of depression in college student populations even in Arabic culture, which differs dramatically from Western culture in both values and taboos.

CITATION Al-Musawi, N. M. (2014)Strategic use of translation in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) among Bahrain university students.

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The primary purpose of the present study was to explore the attitudes of Bahrain university students toward women's rights and roles. The study also determined whether the Arabic version of the Attitude toward Women Scale (AWS-AR) developed in this study had satisfactory psychometric properties and thus was a useful measure of gender-role ideology. The AWS-AR was administered to 364 students enrolled in the University of Bahrain. The results of this study provided additional evidence for the adequacy of the AWS for measuring attitudes toward women. They also corroborate the findings of other similar studies that utilized this scale for revealing student views concerning rights and roles of women. Implications of the results of study on teacher education in Bahrain are highlighted and discussed.