title: The Drug Involvement Scale for Adolescents (DISA).
abstract: This article specifically addressed the need for a multidimensional approach to measuring adolescents' drug involvement. The Drug Involvement Scale for Adolescents (DISA) was theoretically specified and its measurement properties were tested using Confirmatory Factor Analyses and traditional procedures with 705 high-risk and typical high school students. Five first-order dimensions, Drug Access, Alcohol Use, Other Drug Use, Drug Use Control Problems and Adverse Drug Use Consequences, and a hierarchical model of Drug Involvement demonstrated a good fit between model and data. Further, the DISA demonstrated good internal consistency (alpha = .91); correlated as expected with known correlates of adolescent drug use; discriminated drug involvement between high-risk and typical high school students; and predicted later drug involvement and known drug-related consequences among adolescents. The results suggest the DISA should be useful for capturing a multidimensional view of adolescent drug involvement in both etiologic and prevention studies. A major advantage of the DISA is its brevity: twenty-two indicators constructed from twenty-nine items.
authors: Psychosocial and Community Health Dept., University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7263, USA.
authors: L L
authors: LL
authors: Eggert
authors: J R
authors: JR
authors: Herting
authors: E A
authors: EA
authors: Thompson
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000187:drug effects; D000339:Affect; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013287:Illicit Drugs / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000600:supply & distribution; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D014836:Volition
chemical_list: D013287:Illicit Drugs