Administered an Arabic version of the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) to 1,010 boys and 1,019 girls, ages 7 to 16 years, enrolled in public schools in Cairo, Egypt. The sample's mean scores were notably higher than the scorees of comparable normative samples of children in Western countries. Also, girls in the upper grades received significantly higher CDI scores than their male counterparts. We discuss the results in a cross-cultural context.
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