title: Constructing a short form of the Smoking Consequences Questionnaire with adolescents and young adults.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Service, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, California, USA. mgmyers@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Mark G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.forename: Denis M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: McCarthy
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: MacPherson
authors.forename: Sandra A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: 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