Constructing a short form of the Smoking Consequences Questionnaire with adolescents and young adults.
The goal of the present studies was to construct and validate a short form of the 50-item Smoking Consequences Questionnaire (SCQ; T.H. Brandon & T. B. Baker, 1991), a measure of smoking outcome expectancies. In Study 1, a 21-item short form (S-SCQ) was derived from a sample of 107 young adults previously treated for substance abuse. In Study 2, the measure was cross-validated on 125 adolescents in treatment for substance abuse. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed good model fit and factorial invariance for the 4 S-SCQ subscales across both samples. Validation analyses on each sample found that subscale scores generally correlated significantly with smoking-related variables. The present studies provide initial evidence for the utility of the S-SCQ when used with young adults and adolescents.
Myers
Mark G
MG
Psychology Service, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, California, USA. mgmyers@ucsd.edu
McCarthy
Denis M
DM
MacPherson
Laura
L
Brown
Sandra A
SA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires