@article{ref1,
title="Measuring Alcohol Expectancies in Youth",
journal="Journal of youth and adolescence",
year="2006",
author="Randolph, KA and Gerend, MA and Miller, Brenda A.",
volume="35",
number="6",
pages="939-948",
abstract="Beliefs about the consequences of using alcohol, alcohol expectancies, are powerful predictors of underage drinking. The Alcohol Expectancies Questionnaire-Adolescent form (AEQ-A) has been widely used to measure expectancies in youth. Despite its broad use, the factor structure of the AEQ-A has not been firmly established. It is also not known whether it assesses similar constructs (i.e., measurement invariance) between boys and girls. This article reports on a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of a shortened version of the AEQ-A with 310 youth, ages 10-16, to determine whether a two factor, positive and negative expectancy structure held for this sample and to test measurement invariance across gender. The results support evidence of a 2-factor, positive and negative structure for the abbreviated version of the AEQ-A and show that it assesses equivalent alcohol expectancy constructs among males and females. These findings have important implications for cognitive based approaches to alcohol prevention.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0047-2891",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}