Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire

AEQ

Expectations on use

Characteristics of use

General

To assess the expectations that people have who are under treatment in relation to alcohol use based on some of the properties attributed to it.

Group interaction, expressiveness, disinhibition, sexuality, psychological stress, physical stress, aggressivity and feelings of power and psychophysiological changes.

1980

Brown, SA., Goldman, MS., Inn, A., & Anderson, L.R.

Available with permission of the authors of the scale

Instrument that assesses the expectations of drinking through six dimensions. The original version comprises 180 items. The adapted version in Mexico consists of 51 items in eight dimensions: group interaction, expressiveness, disinhibition, sexual, psychological stress, physical stress, aggression and feelings of power and psychophysiological changes.

The internal consistency coefficients for the AEQ subscales vary in a range of 0.72 to 0.92 (average 0.84) in adults with no problematic use (Brown, et. Al., 1987).

180

Self-administered

It consists of 51 items in eight dimensions: group interaction, expressiveness, disinhibition, sexuality, psychological stress, physical stress, aggression and feelings of power and psychophysiological changes. The items are structured in format of \ like\ "\" dislike \ "with a degree of response on moderate alcohol use defined as \" short \ "or \" a couple glasses \ ". Positive Global Changes. Increase of sexuality. "

General population

Youth and adults

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