Measuring alcohol use across the transition to adulthood: Racial/ethnic, sexual identity, and educational differences.
CONCLUSIONS: Measurement testing is a critical step when utilizing multi-item measures of alcohol use. Studies that do not account for the effects of group or longitudinal measurement non-invariance may be statistically biased, such that recommendations for risk and prevention efforts could be misguided.
PMID: 29055208 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Addictive Behaviors - Category: Addiction Authors: Fish JN, Pollitt AM, Schulenberg JE, Russell ST Tags: Addict Behav Source Type: research
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