A psychometric assessment of the Brief Situational Confidence Questionnaire for Marijuana (BSCQ-M) in juvenile justice-involved youth

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Cannabis refusal self-efficacy, defined as confidence in the ability to refuse cannabis or to avoid cannabis use, is associated with decreased cannabis use. Juvenile justice-involved youth are at high risk for cannabis use and may have lower refusal self-efficacy. While court-involved, non-incarcerated (CINI) and incarcerated youth are groups that are both at high-risk for cannabis use, the experience of incarceration may impact the measurement of refusal self-efficacy for cannabis. The factor structure, measurement invariance, and concurrent validity of the Brief Situational Confidence Questionnaire for Cannabis (BSCQ-M) was assessed among CINI (n = 148) and incarcerated (n = 199) youth (80.7% male, Mage = 16.3). Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that a correlated 3-factor model including positive/good times, negative internal, and negative external situational factors best fit the data. Multigroup measurement invariance testing revealed that the BSCQ-M demonstrated configural, metric, scalar, and residual invariance across CINI and incarcerated samples, indicating measurement invariance across the two groups. Negative binomial regressions revealed that BSCQ-M scores were significantly negatively associated with concurrent cannabis use. Results suggest that the BSCQ-M is a brief, psychometrically sound measure of refusal self-efficacy for cannabis among juvenile justice-involved youth that can be utilized with both CINI and incarcerated youth.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:125

Enthalten in:

Addictive behaviors - 125(2022) vom: 15. Feb., Seite 107154

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Micalizzi, Lauren [VerfasserIn]
Sokolovsky, Alexander W [VerfasserIn]
Delaney, Daniel J [VerfasserIn]
Gunn, Rachel L [VerfasserIn]
Hernandez, Lynn [VerfasserIn]
Kemp, Kathleen [VerfasserIn]
Spirito, Anthony [VerfasserIn]
Stein, L A R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cannabis use
Journal Article
Juvenile justice
Measurement invariance
Psychometrics
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Youth

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Date Completed 26.01.2022

Date Revised 02.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107154

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NLM332740773