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Escala de Representações Sociais do Consumo de Álcool e Drogas em Adolescentes
Dimension: Risk factors start consumption
Area
Personal, Peer Group, Social Environment
Specificity
Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
Year
2006
Author
Carvalho, & Leal
Identification and Classification
- Instrument
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Escala de Representações Sociais do Consumo de Álcool e Drogas em Adolescentes
- Acronym
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ERSCAD
- Area
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Personal, Peer Group, Social Environment
- Dimension
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Risk factors start consumption
- Specificity
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Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
- Objective
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Assess the social representations in relation to the use of alcohol and drugs in school-aged adolescents
- Factors it measures
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- information
- Attitudes
- Beliefs
- Year
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2006
- Author
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Carvalho, & Leal
- Author Contact Data
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Leal, Isabel
ISPA – Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisboa
E-mail: ileal@ispa.pt
- Availability
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Free
- Link
Description
- Abstract
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The objective of the instrument is to evaluate social representations regarding the use of alcohol and drugs in school-aged adolescents. To do this, it uses a total of 32 items that are answered on a Likert-type scale with five response options
- Psychometric characteristics
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With regard to internal consistency indices, values are given for both subscales and totals above .70
- No. of items
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It consists of 32 items constructed on the basis of a Likert-type self-adjustment scale with five points, constituted by three subscales (information - 16 items, beliefs - 8 items and attitudes - 8 items) that range from 'total agreement - disagreement'
- Duration
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15 min
- Way of administration
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- Individual and collective
- Paper
- Way of qualification
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The higher the score, the higher the level of information; more favorable and permissive will be the attitudes of the adolescents towards the use of alcohol and drugs, as well as, greater number of beliefs about positive effects associated to the use of substances
- Application context
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Clinic / School
- Population
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Adolescents
- References
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Carvalho, A. C., & Leal, I. (2006). Construção e validação de uma Escala de Representações Sociais do Consumo de Álcool e Drogas em adolescentes. Psicologia, Saúde e Doenças, 7, 287-297.