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Constructing a short form of the Smoking Consequences Questionnaire with adolescents and young adults.

2003; American Psychological Association; Volume: 15; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1037/1040-3590.15.2.163

1939-134X

Mark G. Myers, Laura MacPherson, Denis M. McCarthy, Sandra A. Brown,

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

The goal of the present studies was to construct and validate a short form of the 50-item Smoking Consequences Questionnaire (SCQ; T.H. Brandon & T. B. Baker, 1991), a measure of smoking outcome expectancies. In Study 1, a 21-item short form (S-SCQ) was derived from a sample of 107 young adults previously treated for substance abuse. In Study 2, the measure was cross-validated on 125 adolescents in treatment for substance abuse. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed good model fit and factorial invariance for the 4 S-SCQ subscales across both samples. Validation analyses on each sample found that subscale scores generally correlated significantly with smoking-related variables. The present studies provide initial evidence for the utility of the S-SCQ when used with young adults and adolescents.