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The Adolescent Alcohol Involvement Scale: some findings with young offenders
Author(s) -
PUTNIŅŠ ALDIS L.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0959-5236
DOI - 10.1080/09595239200185781
Subject(s) - psychology , scale (ratio) , alcohol , clinical psychology , psychiatry , chemistry , geography , cartography , biochemistry
The Adolescent Alcohol Involvement Scale (AAIS) has been questioned regarding its reliability, the amount of common variance among items and its clinical usefulness. Previous studies are reviewed and data for 197 South Australian young offenders in custody are presented. The AAIS was found to be a reliable and internally consistent measure of adolescent alcohol use and misuse. A strong general alcohol involvement component on which all items had positive loadings was found. The need for objective measures in work with at‐risk populations was highlighted. The AAIS meets this need through a brief yet broad sampling of clinically‐relevant behaviours.