Development and validation of a scale measuring attitudes toward smoking.

نویسندگان

  • T H Shore
  • A Tashchian
  • J S Adams
چکیده

The authors developed the Smoking Attitudes Scale (SAS) and administered it to 2 samples of U.S. students who were smokers or nonsmokers. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis with LISREL (K. G. Jöreskog & D. Sörbom, 1989) methodology revealed that the SAS consists of 4 factors. The overall instrument possesses good internal consistency and adequate construct validity as well.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of social psychology

دوره 140 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000