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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants

From: Psychometric properties of an Arabic translation of the external and internal shame scale (EISS)

Variable

Total sample

(N = 570)

First split-half subsample

(n = 277)

Second split-half subsample

(n = 293)

Gender

   

Men

179 (31.4%)

90 (32.5%)

89 (30.4%)

Women

391 (68.6%)

187 (67.5%)

204 (69.6%)

Marital status

   

Single

477 (83.7%)

232 (83.8%)

245 (83.6%)

Married

93 (16.3%)

45 (16.2%)

48 (16.4%)

Education

   

Secondary or less

29 (5.1%)

18 (6.5%)

11 (3.8%)

University

541 (94.9%)

259 (93.5%)

282 (96.2%)

Region of living

   

Urban

280 (49.1%)

141 (50.9%)

139 (47.4%)

Rural

290 (50.9%)

136 (49.1%)

154 (52.6%)

 

Mean ± SD

  

Age (in years)

24.59 ± 6.75

24.88 ± 7.76

24.32 ± 5.63

Household crowding index (person/room)

1.10 ± 0.51

1.13 ± 0.56

1.07 ± 0.45