RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Personality Psychology:
  Measurement issues, factor structure of personality, consistency issue, taxonomy of personality, type A & C issues, gender differences in personality, cultural differences issue, aggregation issue, act frequency issue, cultural contribution to individual difference in personality traits.
   

• Clinical Psychology:
  Measurement of Shyness/Social Anxiety/Embarrassment/Shame/Guilt/Remorse/ Optimism/Pessimism/Unrealistic Optimism/Hopelessness/Depression/Anxiety/Dental Anxiety/Death Anxiety/ Future Anxiety/Suicide/Fears/Emotional States/Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD)/Cigarette Smoking Behavior.
   

• Cross-Cultural Psychology:
  Cultural differences in cognitive style, Depression, shyness, anxiety, optimisms, pessimisms, health status, Tension-Type headache, Type 2 diabetes, dental fear, and emotional status.
   

• Cognitive Psychology:
  Psychological Differentiation/Cognitive Style/Stroop Phenomena/Gender & Cultural Differences in Intelligence/Visual Learning Assessment/Memory Assessment/Attention Assessment/ Measurement Issues/Visual Perception/Perception of Illusion/Mueller-Lyer (M-L) Illusion/Horizontal-Vertical Illusions.
   

• Psychometrics:
  The Psychometric Properties of the Five Factor-Inventory NEO-FFI-S/Interaction Anxiousness scale IAS/Social Reticence Scale SRS/Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale CBSS/Social Avoidance and Distress Scale SADS/Beck Depression Inventory BDI-1 & BDI-II/Beck Hopelessness Scale BHS/Eight State Questionnaire 8SQ/Differential Emotions Scale DES/Personality Assessment Inventory PAI/Fear Survey Schedule FSS - III/Life Orientation test LOT/California Psychological Inventory CPI/Eysenck Personality Questionnaire EPQ/State - Trait Anxiety Inventory/State - Trait Anger Expression Inventory STAXI/ Unrealistic Optimism Scale UOS/Personal Feeling Questionnaire PFQ - II/Adjective Checklist ACL/ Embedded Figures Test EFT/Stroop Color Word Test SCWT/Life Events Scale LES/Nicotine Dependence Scale (NDS)/Smoking Quitting Scale SQS/Smoking Motivation Scale SMS/Dental Anxiety Scale DAS/ Future Anxiety Scale FAS/Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation BSSI/Suicide Assessment Scale SAS/Kuwait University Anxiety Scale (KUAS)/Kuwait University Optimism and Pessimism Scale (KUOPS)/Satisfaction and Life Scale (SWLS)/Acceptance of Illness Scale (AIS)/Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS)/Rotterdam Symptom Checklist (RSCL)/Meaning of Life Scale (MLS). Diabetes Self-Care Scale (DSC)/ Diabetes family Behavior. Checklist (DEBC)/ Diabetes Health Profile (DHP)/Diabetes Camping Measure (DCM)/Health Belief Model Scale (HBMS) /Diabetes Attitude Scale (DAS)/ Patient Knowledge Test ( PKT)/ Audit of Diabetes- Department Quality of Life (ADDQOL)/ Diabetes Quality of Life Measure (DQOL)/Type 2 Diabetes Symptom Checklist (T2 DSC) /Diabetes Self Care Activities (DSCA)/Diabetes Risk Test (DRT)/ Diabetes , Diet and Physical Activity Scale (DDPAS).
   

• Health Psychology:
  Personality and Cancer/Disease-Prone Personality/Cancer Prone Type/Coronary Heart Disease Prone Type/Rational/Rheumatoid/Arthritis Type and Psychology Type/Personality and Subjective/ Well-Being/The Big Five and Health/Smoking and Health/Anxiety and Health/Depression and Health/ Tension-Type headache and Migraine and their relationship to Anxiety and Depression/ Health Status and Health – Related Quality of Life/ Diabetes Quality of Life/ Diabetes Knowledge attitudes and beliefs/ Obesity Quality of Life/the Psychological adjustment diabetes and obesity /obesity and diabetes risk factor.