Testing the Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the Decisional Balance Scale of the Transtheoretical Model Using the Multi-Trait Multi-Method Approach

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 288-294

  Guo, Boliang ^a   Aveyard, Paul ^a   Fielding, Antony ^a   Sutton, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

convergent validity; decisional balance; discriminant validity; hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis multi trait multi method approach (HCFA MTMM)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT SMOKING; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; CHARACTER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL FACILITATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 44849108954     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0893-164X.22.2.288     Document Type: Article

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