VALIDATION OF THE MALEVOLENT CREATIVITY BEHAVIOR SCALE IN THE ARAB CONTEXT USING CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS WITH A SAMPLE COMPRISING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND SUDAN This study aimed to verify Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale (MCBS) in the Arab context, using descriptive correlational design. The study sample, which was drawn from the population of university students in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and in the republic of Sudan, comprised 3,408 male and female undergraduate university students (n=1,789 Saudi; n=1,619 Sudanese). The MCBS scale comprises 13 items in three dimensions (i.e., hurting people, lying, and playing tricks), which fall under the general category of malevolent creativity. In this study, the sole alteration made was to translate the scale into Arabic. This research, which employed confirmatory factor analysis, confirmed the MCBS as a valid tool for measuring malevolent creativity in the Arab environment. While this supports the use of the scale with the population of university students in the two countries, there is a need to confirm our findings through application to additional and diverse populations in Sudan and Saudi Arabia as well as to populations in other Arab world countries. Findings restricted to the Sudanese sample of this study solely on the topic of gender and rates of malevolent creativity were previously presented. ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 25 (8) September, 2024; 1-10.

PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE HABAB MALEVOLENT CREATIVITY SCALE Abstract Malevolent creativity refers to immoral Creativity and devoid of values, often combined with detrimental effects on others. The current study analyses the Habab Malevolent Creativity Scale (HMCS), It is use self-report, The scale contains 48 items and was designed to measure the ability of individuals to produce the largest diverse and unique number of ideas, emotions and behaviors related to hurting, lying playing tricks, it is one of the few scale available to directly measure Malevolent Creativity (MC). The scale was administered to 3406 male and female students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Sudan and to a sample of 115 male and female prisoners in Omdurman Prison in Sudan, The reliability of the scale was tested with nine indicators of validity, the instrument had high indicators of validity and stability, as the validity of internal consistency. Reliability coefficients using Cronbach’s Alpha and MacDonald’s Omega were high. Thus, it is a reliable instrument with which to measure Malevolent Creativity. ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 25 ( ) November, 2024; 1-11.