The Comprehensive Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire: Confirmatory factor analysis, scale refinement, and further validation

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 400-409

  Nicolai, Jennifer ^a   Demmel, Ralf ^b   Moshagen, Morten ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; STUDENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INPATIENTS; MALE; PEER GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF EFFICACY; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955568534     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2010.497396     Document Type: Article

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