START
Dimension: Risk factors start consumption
Area
Personal
Specificity
Specific: Alcohol
Year
2007
Author
Stein, Katz, Colby, Barnett, Golembeske, Lebeau-Craven, & Monti
Stein, Lynda.
University/CAAS, Box G-BH, Providence, RI 02912
E-mail: lynda_stein_phd@brown.edu
Year
2015
Validation Country
Spain
Author
Gázquez, Pérez-Fuentes, Molero, Martos, Cardila, Barragán, Carrión, Garzón, & Mercader
Author Contact Data
Gázquez, J. Jesús.
Departamento de Psicología. Universidad de Almería. Ctra. de Sacramento s/n, 04120, Almería (España)
E-mail: jlinares@ual.es
References
Gázquez, J. J., Pérez-Fuentes, M. C., Molero, M. M., Martos, Á., Cardila, F., Barragán, A. B., Carrión, J. J., Garzón, A., & Mercader, I. (2015). Adaptación española del Cuestionario de Expectativas del Alcohol en Adolescentes, versión breve. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 5, 357-369.
AEQ-AB measures the expectations of adolescents on the effects of alcohol by means of seven items, which makes it an effective tool in the evaluation of beliefs about use as well as for individual monitoring
Reliability:
Positive expectations about the effects of alcohol: α = 0.49
Negative expectations about the effects of alcohol: α = 0 .51
Positive expectations towards use in the original version (constituted by positive social areas, fun, sex and stress reduction): .76
Negative expectations towards use in the original version (constituted by the negative social, negative emotional, negative physical and negative cognitive areas): .96
Validity:
Confirmatory factor analysis: showed that the model (7 items) presents an adequate adjustment
Convergent validity analysis: alcohol expectations factors (positive and negative) are correlated in both questionnaires. Likewise, this correlation exists with respect to all the EQ factors (Leigh & Stacy, 1993), except for the negative emotional and negative social factor
The scores associated with the scale indicate the degree of proximity to positive and negative expectations towards alcohol use
Stein, L. A. R., Katz, B., Colby, S. M., Barnett, N. P., Golembeske, C., Lebeau-Craven, R., & Monti, P. M. (2007). Validity and reliability of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire Adolescent, Brief. Journal Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 16, 115-127.
Leigh, B. C., & Stacy, A. W. (1993). Alcohol outcome expectancies: Scale construction and predictive utility in higher order confirmatory models. Psychological Assessment, 5, 216-229.