Measurement properties of the Communities That Care® Youth Survey across demographic groups
Measurement properties of the Communities That Care® Youth Survey across demographic groups
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DOI：
10.1007/s10940-004-1788-1
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发表时间：
2005-03-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Catalano, RF
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作者：
Glaser, RR;Van Horn, ML;Catalano, RF
预防科学已经提供了有关风险和保护因素的信息，这些信息可以预测青少年吸毒和相关的问题行为。本文调查了社区关心青年调查，衡量多种风险和保护因素。1998年，在7个州进行的调查中，172，628名学生参与了样本，进行了分析，以测试这些风险和保护因素的因素结构，并测试五个种族/族裔群体的因素模型的等效性（非裔美国人，亚洲人或太平洋岛民，高加索人，西班牙裔美国人和美洲原住民），四个等级（第6、第8、第10和第12）和两个性别组。结果支持调查的风险和保护因素量表的结构效度，并表明，这些措施是同样可靠的男性和女性和五个种族/族裔群体。这些研究结果的科学为基础的预防规划的影响进行了讨论。
Prevention science has produced information about risk and protective factors that predict adolescent drug use and related problem behaviors. This paper investigates the Communities That Care Youth Survey that measures multiple risk and protective factors. Using a sample of 172,628 students who participated in surveys administered in seven states in 1998, analyses were conducted to test the factor structure of these risk and protective factors and to test the equivalence of the factor models across five racial/ethnic groups (African Americans, Asians or Pacific Islanders, Caucasians, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans), four grade levels (6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th) and both gender groups. Results support the construct validity of the survey's risk and protective factor scales and indicate that the measures are equally reliable across males and females and five racial/ethnic groups. Implications of these findings for science-based prevention planning are discussed.