The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test revisited: Establishing its structure using nonlinear factor analysis and identifying subgroups of respondents using latent class factor analysis

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 71-82

  Rist, Fred ^a   Glöckner Rist, Angelika ^b   Demmel, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Factor structure; Gender differences; Hazardous alcohol use; Item response theory; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS IDENTIFICATION TEST; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DRINKER INVENTORY OF CONSEQUENCES; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HUMAN; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57649085635     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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