Validation of the POSIT: Comparing Drug Using and Abstaining Youth
| Autor: | Julia K. Rembert, Julie Spears, Brad Richardson, James A. Hall |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
Social Psychology
Concurrent validity Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Construct validity medicine.disease Education Psychological evaluation Test (assessment) Substance abuse Social skills mental disorders Structured interview medicine Situational ethics Psychology General Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse. 8:29-61 |
| ISSN: | 1547-0652 1067-828X |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to validate the Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers by comparing drug using and abstaining youth on several social and behavioral characteristics. Drug using youth were recruited from residential and outpatient drug treatment centers. Abstaining youth were recruited from the social networks of the drug using youths and from community organizations that were strongly opposed to drug use. All youths were assessed on several psycho-social variables using a structured interview schedule, a set of questionnaires, and a situational role play test of social skills. First, concurrent validity of the POSIT was tested by comparing POSIT domain scores between these two groups of youth. Based on our analysis, all ten POSIT domain scores for drug using youth were greater than those for the abstaining youth, and nine of the ten were significantly greater. Second, construct validity was evaluated by comparing POSIT domain scores with scores from other instruments. P... |
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