Jenkins S J, Fisher G L, Applegate R L
Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Nevada-Reno 89557.
Psychol Rep. 1990 Feb;66(1):331-6. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1990.66.1.331.
Few standardized instruments measure attitudes and beliefs towards substance abuse. The Substance Abuse Attitude Survey, developed for measuring drug attitudes in medical education, was administered to 598 college undergraduates, and a factor analysis was performed. Three coherent and stable factors were identified, e.g., Stereotypes and Moralism, Treatment, and Permissiveness. Internal consistency and 6-wk. test-retest measures indicated moderate to high reliability factor structure. Results are discussed in terms of sample differences between this effort and a previous validation.
