Assessing self-efficacy to reduce one's drinking: further evaluation of the Alcohol Reduction Strategies-Current Confidence questionnaire
| Autor: | Shane W. Kraus, Erin E. Bonar, Elizabeth Kryszak, Lisham Ashrafioun, Kathleen M. Young, Harold Rosenberg, Erica Hoffmann, Erin E. Bannon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Adolescent Alcohol Drinking media_common.quotation_subject Poison control Suicide prevention Surveys and Questionnaires Injury prevention Medicine Personality Humans Psychiatry Students media_common Self-efficacy business.industry Discriminant validity Human factors and ergonomics Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Self Efficacy Treatment Female business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire). 47(3) |
| ISSN: | 1464-3502 |
| Popis: | Aims: To evaluate the psychometric properties of a previously published questionnaire designed to assess young drin- kers' self-efficacy to employ 31 cognitive-behavioral alcohol reduction strategies. Methods: Undergraduates (n= 353) recruited from a large Midwestern university completed the previously published Alcohol Reduction Strategies-Current Confidence questionnaire (and other measures) for a self-selected heavy drinking setting. Results: Item loadings from a principal components analysis, a high internal consistency reliability coefficient, and a moderate mean inter-item correlation suggested that all 31 items comprised a single scale. Correlations of questionnaire scores with selected aspects of drinking history and personality provided support for criterion and discriminant validity, respectively. Women reported higher current confidence to use these strategies than did men, but current confidence did not vary as a function of recent binge status. Conclusion: Given this further demonstration of its psychometric qual- ities, this questionnaire holds promise as a clinical tool to identify clients who lack confidence in their ability to employ cognitive- behavioral coping strategies to reduce their drinking. |
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