title: Evaluation of the criterion and predictive validity of the Alcohol Reduction Strategies-Current Confidence (ARS-CC) in a natural drinking environment.
abstract: To evaluate several psychometric properties of a questionnaire designed to assess young people's self-efficacy to employ 31 alcohol reduction strategies, we assessed breath alcohol concentration, self-reported drinking, current strategy self-efficacy, and recent past use of these strategies in 100 young adults as they walked to and from the local bar district of a Midwestern college town. In support of criterion and predictive validity of the questionnaire, we found that lower self-efficacy at the initial assessment was significantly correlated with higher scores on a screening measure of consumption, with having engaged in more heavy drinking episodes in the past 30 days, and with higher levels of intoxication and use of fewer reduction strategies later that evening. Frequency counts indicate that 10 of the alcohol reduction strategies had been used by at least half of the sample to reduce their drinking earlier that evening.
authors: Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, United States.
authors: Erica
authors: E
authors: Hoffmann
authors: Alan K
authors: AK
authors: Davis
authors: Lisham
authors: L
authors: Ashrafioun
authors: Shane W
authors: SW
authors: Kraus
authors: Harold
authors: H
authors: Rosenberg
authors: Erin E
authors: EE
authors: Bannon
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Kryszak
authors: Victoria
authors: V
authors: Carhart
authors: Kyoung
authors: K
authors: Baik
authors: Samantha
authors: S
authors: Jesse
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D001944:Breath Tests; D000431:Ethanol / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020377:Self Efficacy; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol