Validity of adolescent self-report of alcohol and other drug involvement.
Validity of adolescent self-report of alcohol and drug use and consequential effects and problems is examined. Validity is discussed in terms of its importance in research and clinical work. Also, results from a recent study are presented that focus on self-report temporal stability and response bias tendencies as evidence of validity of self-report. Study results indicate that the great majority of drug clinic and school teenagers gave temporally consistent reports of substance involvement and that only a small proportion of drug clinic and school subjects presented extreme response bias tendencies.
Winters
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Stinchfield
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Henly
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Schwartz
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D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D013997:Time Factors