title: Development and validation of a scale measuring attitudes toward smoking.
abstract: The authors developed the Smoking Attitudes Scale (SAS) and administered it to 2 samples of U.S. students who were smokers or nonsmokers. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis with LISREL (K. G. Jöreskog & D. Sörbom, 1989) methodology revealed that the SAS consists of 4 factors. The overall instrument possesses good internal consistency and adequate construct validity as well.
authors.affiliation: Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University, GA 30144, USA. ted_shore@coles2.kennesaw.edu
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Shore
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tashchian
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Adams
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010556:Personality Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States