Journal of Studies on Alcohol · 1986 · 43 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesPsychiatryPsychologyItem Response TheoryPsychometricsSubstance Use DisordersAddiction AssessmentAlcohol Use DisorderItem AnalysisPsychological TestingSubstance IntoxicationSubstance UseAlcohol Use Disorder ScreeningPsychometric DimensionalityPsychometric PropertiesShrinkageStandardization SamplesSubstance Use Disorder ScreeningSubstance Use ScreeningValidated Screening Instruments
A 36-item MMPI-derived scale, devoid of circular items, was constructed by contrasting the item responses of a sample of young men alcohol offenders and a sample of young men in treatment for drug or alcohol misuse, with samples of similarly aged and sexed college students, ambulatory medical patients and psychiatric outpatients who were not substance misusers. Detection rates, which averaged approximately 85% for four standardization samples, suffered no validity shrinkage on cross-validation.