TABLE 3.

Factor Loadings for Drinking Values Scale (DVS) Items at College Entry (T1) and End of Freshman Year (T2)

	Responsibility		Personal Choice		Institutional Obligations
PDI item	T1a	T2b	T1c	T2d	T1e	T2f
Drinking to excess is wrong because it can have unfavorable effects on others.	.82	.81
Excessive drinking violates the rights of other students.	.72	.66
Drinking alcohol heavily is wrong because it affects not only you but also others.	.72	.80
There is nothing wrong with having 1 or 2 drinks.			.80	.80
How much a person drinks is not a matter of right and wrong but a matter of personal choice.			.63	.72
An occasional alcoholic drink is okay for anyone who enjoys it.			.73	.77
Drinking a lot (5 or more drinks in a row) is okay as long as you know you can handle it.			.54	.59
The university has an obligation to parents of students to monitor and enforce drinking policies.					.86	.80
The resident advisor has an obligation to enforce university drinking policies.					.82	.85
Rules about drinking on campus are meant to protect students.					.78	.76

Note. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy at T1 = 808; at T2 = .821. Bartlett's test of sphericity at T1 = 1,087 (df = 66), p < .001; at T2 = 1,459 (df = 66), p < .001.

^aeigenvalue = 1.71, α = .71.

^beigenvalue = 1.08, α = .72.

^ceigenvalue = 1.06, α = .78.

^deigenvalue = 3.34, α = .78.

^eeigenvalue = 3.35, α = .79.

^feigenvalue = 1.87, α = .77.