Reliability, validity and classification accuracy of the South Oaks Gambling Screen in a Brazilian sample

Autor: Silvia Teresa Collakis, Maria Paula Magalhães Tavares de Oliveira, Maria Teresa Araujo Silva, Dartiu Xavier da Silveira, Juliana Bizeto, Simone Villas Boas de Carvalho
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Journal of gambling studies. 25(4)
ISSN: 1573-3602
Popis: The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability, validity and classification accuracy of the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) in a sample of the Brazilian population. Participants in this study were drawn from three sources: 71 men and women from the general population interviewed at a metropolitan train station; 116 men and women encountered at a bingo venue; and 54 men and women undergoing treatment for gambling. The SOGS and a DSM-IV-based instrument were applied by trained researchers. The internal consistency of the SOGS was 0.75 according to the Cronbach’s alpha model, and construct validity was good. A significant difference among groups was demonstrated by ANOVA (F (2.238) = 221.3, P
Databáze: OpenAIRE