psychological evaluation of enrolled medical college students a predicting measure of academic underachievement

scl-90-r-scale was used to asses 1184 enrolled medical colleges students, tehran university of medical sciences and health services. out of nine orthogonal symptome dimensions of the instrument, paranoid ideation, interpersonal sensitivity and obsessive complusive were the most frequent in the study.difference between males and females was significant in depression, anxiety and phobic anxiety dimensions. mean psychopathological dimensions in students with gpa lower than 14 were detected to be more significant than others