Intermittent Explosive Disorder in Adolescents

Abstract

The current research aims to identify intermittent explosive disorder among middle school students in the third intermediate grade and its prevalence rate among them and to identify the significance of statistical differences according to the gender variable (males-females) for the diagnosed sample. In order to achieve the objectives of the current research, the researcher adopted the scale (Abdul Razzaq, Khatam 2022), which was built according to the standards of the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and Illnesses. The number of paragraphs of the scale reached (19) paragraphs. After verifying its psychometric properties of validity, two methods were used to extract validity, namely apparent validity and construct and discrimination validity. The correlation coefficient (Point by Serial) was used to extract the correlation relationship, as the tabular value reached (0.98) at a significance level of (0.05) and a degree of freedom of (398). This indicated that all paragraphs are distinct. The reliability was calculated by the test-retest method and the (Cronbach's alpha) method on a sample of (50) male and female students from the middle stage, which was selected by the random stratum method for the academic year (2024_2025), and the results were as follows:

1_ The prevalence rate of intermittent explosive disorder

2_ The presence of differences in intermittent explosive disorder in favor of males