Development and initial testing of the brief adolescent smoking curiosity scale (ASCOS).

CONCLUSIONS: ASCOS presented good psychometric properties and passed initial validity-testing through associations with antecedents of smoking. ASCOS was a better predictor of susceptibility to smoke than did a traditional single-item measure used by previous research. As an implication, ASCOS can be crucial to the development of tailored interventions for smoking prevention that can reduce smoking curiosity.
PMID: 29127786 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Addictive Behaviors - November 7, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Khalil GE, Calabro KS, Prokhorov AV Tags: Addict Behav Source Type: research