Revalidation and expansion of an adolescent substance abuse screening measure.
The perceived-benefit-of-drinking scale has been developed to assess reasons for drinking in an adolescent population. In this study, the self-administered questionnaire, which has been expanded to include a reason-for-drug-use scale, was completed by 1363 junior and senior high school students. A comprehensive battery of analytic techniques was used to investigate the performance of these perceived-benefit scales on this larger and wider age-range sample. The results confirmed the reliability and validity of the instrument. The findings showed the two scales to perform well across a range of sociodemographic and age groups. These data reassert the strength of the approach and support the instrument's potential as a tool for clinically assessing adolescent substance use.
Petchers
M K
MK
School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
Singer
M I
MI
Angelotta
J W
JW
Chow
J
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology