Validity of adolescent self-report of alcohol and other drug involvement Article

Winters, KC, Stinchfield, RD, Henly, GA et al. (1990). Validity of adolescent self-report of alcohol and other drug involvement . SUBSTANCE USE & MISUSE, 25(S11), 1379-1395. 10.3109/10826089009068469

cited authors

  • Winters, KC; Stinchfield, RD; Henly, GA; Schwartz, RH

authors

abstract

  • Validity of adolescent self-report of alcohol and drug use and consequential effects and problems is examined. Validity is discussed in terms of its importance in research and clinical work. Also, results from a recent study are presented that focus on self-report temporal stability and response bias tendencies as evidence of validity of self-report. Study results indicate that the great majority of drug clinic and school teenagers gave temporally consistent reports of substance involvement and that only a small proportion of drug clinic and school subjects presented extreme response bias tendencies. [Translations are provided in the International Abstracts section of this issue.] © 1990 Informa UK Ltd All rights reserved: reproduction in whole or part not permitted.

publication date

  • January 1, 1990

published in

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 1379

end page

  • 1395

volume

  • 25

issue

  • S11