Cross-cultural examination of college drinking culture in Spain, Argentina, and USA: Measurement invariance testing of the College Life Alcohol Salience Scale.
Objective: Perceptions about what is "normal" drinking in college, measured by the College Life Alcohol Salience Scale (CLASS; 15 items), have been robustly associated with elevated levels of problematic alcohol use, yet the role of these beliefs has not been studied outside the U.S. The present wor...
| Publicado en: | Drug & Alcohol Dependence Vol. 180; pp. 349 - 356 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Nov2017
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=125722578&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 125722578 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 03768716 3S6 jtl: Drug & Alcohol Dependence issn: 03768716 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2017 vid: 180 pid: 1004 pub: Elsevier B.V. artinfo: ui: 125722578 125722578 NLM28950241 125722578 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.08.016 NLM28950241 125722578 ppf: 349 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: Cross-cultural examination of college drinking culture in Spain, Argentina, and USA: Measurement invariance testing of the College Life Alcohol Salience Scale. aug: au: Bravo, Adrian J. Pearson, Matthew R. Pilatti, Angelina Read, Jennifer P. Mezquita, Laura Ibáñez, Manuel I. Ortet, Generós affil: Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions, University of New Mexico 2650 Yale Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106, USA sug: subj: Alcohol Drinking Ethnology Students Statistics and Numerical Data Ethnological Research Argentina Motivation Female Spain Male Adult Colleges and Universities Scales Human Adult: 19-44 years Female Male ab: Objective: Perceptions about what is "normal" drinking in college, measured by the College Life Alcohol Salience Scale (CLASS; 15 items), have been robustly associated with elevated levels of problematic alcohol use, yet the role of these beliefs has not been studied outside the U.S. The present work examined measurement invariance of the CLASS across sex, drinker status, and in individuals from three different countries (i.e., U.S., Argentina, Spain). Additional goals were to evaluate differences on the CLASS (i.e., latent mean differences) as a function of sex, drinker status and country and to compare construct validity (i.e., correlations with alcohol variables) across sex and different countries.Method: A large sample of 1841 college students enrolled in universities from the U.S., Spain and Argentina completed, via an online survey, a battery of instruments that assess college alcohol beliefs, drinking motives, alcohol consumption and alcohol-related negative consequences.Results: We found that a shortened 12-item version of the CLASS to be invariant across sex and drinker status, but only metric invariance was found across countries. As expected, men and drinkers showed significantly higher scores on the CLASS than women and non-drinkers, respectively. Bivariate correlations between CLASS scores and drinking outcomes strongly supported criterion-related validity of this measure across multiple countries and sex with differing strengths in relationships with alcohol-related constructs.Conclusions: Taken together, perceptions of the centrality of alcohol to the college experience appear to be an important target for college student alcohol interventions across various cultures and countries, especially for male college student drinkers. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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