Prevention of alcohol use in middle school students: Psychometric assessment of the decisional balance inventory

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 543-546

  Babbin, Steven F ^a   Harrington, Magdalena ^a   Burditt, Caitlin ^a   Redding, Colleen ^a   Paiva, Andrea ^a   Meier, Kathryn ^a   Oatley, Karin ^a   McGee, Heather ^a   Velicer, Wayne F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol prevention; Decisional balance; Factorial invariance; Middle school students; Transtheoretical model

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONFIGURAL INVARIANCE; DECISIONAL BALANCE INVENTORY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL USE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; NEGRO; PATTERN IDENTITY INVARIANCE; PSYCHOMETRY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRONG FACTORIAL INVARIANCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VALIDITY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; DECISION MAKING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHODE ISLAND; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS;

EID: 79951853851     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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