Citation

Talbott LL, Umstattd MR, Usdan SL, Martin RJ, Geiger BF. Addict. Behav. 2010; 35(5): 510-512.

Affiliation

Department of Human Studies and Center for Educational Accountability, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Education, 901 13th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.12.015

PMID

20060227

Abstract

The Drinking Context Scale (DCS-9) has been used to measure the impact of drinking during social, emotional, and situational contexts. Psychometric properties remain unevaluated in a population of non-adjudicated first-year college students in the southeast. Liseral 8.8 was used to test the factorial validity of the DCS, using Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The original three factor model for the DCS represented acceptable fit to the data (chi(2)=36.72, df=24, p=0.047, CFI=0.991, SRMR=.0406) supporting its use with first-year college students. Invariance between gender, ethnic group, and geographical regions should be examined by future researchers.

Language: en