Sweet Richard I, Saules Karen K
Eastern Michigan University, Department of Psychology, 611 W. Cross Street, 48197, Ypsilanti, MI, USA.
J Subst Abuse Treat. 2003 Jun;24(4):331-40. doi: 10.1016/s0740-5472(03)00049-7.
The construct and convergent validity of the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Instrument-Adolescent (SASSI-A) were examined in a population of suburban youth offenders. The analysis was conducted on archived data of 490 adolescent offenders from a suburban Circuit Court-Juvenile Division. Exploratory factor analysis results best supported a 5-factor solution that accounted for a modest 32.5% of the total variance. This 5-factor solution had a poor goodness of fit with the purported factor structure upon which the formal SASSI-A scoring is based. The relationship between the SASSI-A and variables with known relationships to adolescent substance abuse (i.e., lack of religious involvement, single parent household, learning disability, early onset of use, conduct problems) was examined. Results revealed moderately strong relationships between the SASSI-A and these variables, indicating reasonable convergent validity. It is concluded that the SASSI-A face valid scales have moderate utility for identifying substance dependence within this sample, while the subtle scales do not.
在一群郊区青少年罪犯中对药物滥用简易筛查工具-青少年版（SASSI-A）的结构效度和收敛效度进行了检验。分析是基于一个郊区巡回法院青少年庭490名青少年罪犯的存档数据进行的。探索性因素分析结果最支持一个五因素模型，该模型解释了总方差的32.5%，比例适中。这个五因素模型与正式SASSI-A评分所依据的假定因素结构拟合度较差。研究了SASSI-A与已知的与青少年药物滥用相关变量（即缺乏宗教参与、单亲家庭、学习障碍、早期使用、行为问题）之间的关系。结果显示SASSI-A与这些变量之间存在中等强度的关系，表明有合理的收敛效度。得出的结论是，SASSI-A的表面有效量表在识别该样本中的药物依赖方面有中等效用，而隐蔽量表则不然。
