학술논문
Cross-cultural differences through subjective cognition: illustration in translatology with the SSTIC-E in the UAE
Document Type
article
Author
Emmanuel Stip; Fadwa Al Mugaddam; Karim Abdel Aziz; Leena Amiri; Syed Fahad Javaid; Danilo Arnone; Eisa Almheiri; Abdulla Al Helali; Abderrahim Oulhaj; Yauhen Statsenko; Milos R. Ljubisavljevic; Shamil Wanigaratne; Ovidiu Lungu; Dalia Karpauskaite; Viktorija Aksionova; Aravinthan Subbarayan; Ravi Pralhad Bangalore; Adham Mancini-Marie
Source
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 15 (2024)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1664-1078
Abstract
The development of appropriate and valid multicultural and multilingual instruments research is necessary due to a growing multicultural and multilingual society in the 21st century. We explored the use of a cognitive scale related to subjective complaints, focusing on the first step: a cross-cultural and semantic validation. This study presents the translation and cross-validation process of the “Subjective Scale to Investigate Cognition in Schizophrenia” (SSTICS) for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) region via different languages used in Dubaï/Abu Dhabi. This scale measures cognitive complaints and has been validated with psychosis and used in 20 clinical trials worldwide. It evaluates areas of the illness related to self-awareness focusing on memory dysfunction and deficits of attention, language, and praxis. We described the method of cross-cultural validation, with back-translation, semantic steps, and societal contexts. The use of the Subjective Scale to Investigate Cognition in Emirates (SSTIC-E) was explored with different samples of UAE Arabic-speaking subjects. First, a pilot sample mean SSTICS total score was 16.5 (SD:16.9); (p