Martens Matthew P, Neighbors Clayton, Dams-O'Connor Kristen, Lee Christine M, Larimer Mary E
Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, ED220, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA.
J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2007 Jul;68(4):597-606. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2007.68.597.
Heavy college-student alcohol use and its resulting negative consequences represent a public-health problem on American college campuses. The Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index (RAPI) is a commonly used measure of alcohol problems among college students, but the psychometric properties of this measure never have been comprehensively assessed with the college-student population. The purpose of this research was to conduct reliability and validity analyses, particularly exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, on a dichotomously scored version of the measure.
Data were collected on 4,686 undergraduate students at a large, public university in the Northwest region of the United States and 438 students at a large, public university in the Northeast.
Exploratory factor analysis suggested that a three-factor model provided the best fit to the data. This finding was replicated via confirmatory factor analyses in two separate samples. The three factors were labeled Abuse/Dependence Symptoms, Personal Consequences, and Social Consequences. Each individual factor demonstrated adequate internal consistency and convergent validity.
The results of this study suggest that a dichotomously scored RAPI consists of three subfactors that are reliable and valid in identifying alcohol-related problems among college students.
大学生大量饮酒及其产生的负面后果是美国大学校园的一个公共卫生问题。罗格斯酒精问题指数（RAPI）是大学生酒精问题常用的衡量指标，但该指标的心理测量特性从未在大学生群体中得到全面评估。本研究的目的是对该指标的二分计分版本进行信度和效度分析，特别是探索性和验证性因素分析。
收集了美国西北部一所大型公立大学4686名本科生以及东北部一所大型公立大学438名学生的数据。
探索性因素分析表明，三因素模型对数据的拟合效果最佳。这一发现通过对两个独立样本进行验证性因素分析得到了重复。这三个因素分别被标记为滥用/依赖症状、个人后果和社会后果。每个单独的因素都表现出足够的内部一致性和收敛效度。
本研究结果表明，二分计分的RAPI由三个子因素组成，这些子因素在识别大学生酒精相关问题方面是可靠且有效的。
