Prevention of smoking in Middle School Students: Psychometric assessment of the Temptations to Try Smoking Scale

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 521-523

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Factorial invariance; Smoking Prevention; Temptations Scale; Transtheoretical Model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOMETRY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; TRY SMOKING SCALE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84857044874     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: 18736327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.11.013     Document Type: Article

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