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Substance Use Risk Profile Scale
Dimension: Risk factors start consumption
Area
Personal
Specificity
Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
Year
2002
Author
Conrod & Woicik
Identification and Classification
- Instrument
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Substance Use Risk Profile Scale
- Acronym
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SURPS
- Area
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Personal
- Dimension
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Risk factors start consumption
- Specificity
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Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
- Objective
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Evaluate the personality profile for substance use risk
- Factors it measures
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- Impulsiveness
- Sensitivity to anxiety
- Despair
- Search for sensations
- Year
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2002
- Author
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Conrod & Woicik
- Author Contact Data
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Woicik, Patricia.
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
E-mail: pwoicik@bnl.gov
- Availability
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Commercial use
- Link
Versions
Year
2014
Validation Country
Brazil
Author
Canfield, Gilvarry, & Koller
Author Contact Data
Canfield, Martha.
Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, Whitelands College London, Holybourne Avenue, London SW15 4JD, UK.
E-mail: martha.canfield@roehampton.ac.uk
References
Canfield, M., Gilvarry, C., & Koller, S. H. (2014). Psychometric properties of the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale. Brazilian version. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 13, 204-214.
Year
2014
Validation Country
Mexico
Author
Robles-García, Fresán, Castellanos-Ryan, Conrod, Gómez, de Quevedo y Domínguez, Rafful, Real, Vásquez, & Medina-Mora
Author Contact Data
Fresán, Ana.
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñíz, Calz. México-Xochimilco 101, Mexico City 14370, Mexico.
E-mail: fresan@imp.edu.mx
References
Robles-García, R., Fresán, A., Castellanos-Ryan, N., Conrod, P., Gómez, D., de Quevedo y Domínguez, M. E. G., Rafful, C., Real, T., Vásquez, L., & Medina-Mora, M. E. (2014). Spanish version of the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale: Factor structure, reliability, and validity in Mexican adolescents. Psychiatry Research, 220, 1113-1117.
Description
- Abstract
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SURPS assesses four key personality factors through 23 items associated with drug use, these are hopelessness, impulsivity, search for sensations and sensitivity to anxiety, for which 23 items are used on a Likert scale.
- Psychometric characteristics
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The validation studies have shown correct internal consistency indices, observing a structure of four factors very similar to the original scale. Likewise, the subscales show an adequate concurrent validity and significant correlations with the measures of substance use
- No. of items
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The questionnaire consists of 23 items on a Likert-type scale
- 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 scale includes four forms of response ranging from strongly disagreeing (0) to strongly agreeing (3), being able to obtain a minimum score of 0 and a maximum score of 69.
- Application context
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Clinic / School
- Population
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Applicable from school age
- References
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Conrod, P., & Woicik, P. (2002). Validation of a four-factor model of personality risk for substance abuse and examination of a brief instrument for assessing personality risk. Addiction Biology, 7, 329-346.