title: Development and validation of the Smoking Expectancy Scale for Adolescents.
abstract: This study assessed the factor structure, internal consistency, and concurrent validity of the Smoking Expectancies Scale for Adolescents (SESA) using 717 Australian adolescents (87% nonsmokers, 11% current smokers, and 2% ex-smokers). Exploratory factor analysis of SESA yielded 8 factors. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the 8-factor model, and also a 2nd-order cost-benefit model, fit the data significantly better than 4 alternatives. Validation analyses revealed the 8-factor model explained 26% to 32% of the variance in adolescent cigarette use, smoking intentions, smoking subjective norms, and peer smoking. The 2nd-order model explained 12% to 17% of the variance in these same variables.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Psychology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia. dhine@une.edu.au
authors.forename: Donald W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Hine
authors.forename: Cynthia A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Honan
authors.forename: Anthony D G
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.forename: Karla
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brettschneider
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires