M | SD | Range, coding | Scale Items | Scale α | |
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Lifetime substance use frequency | |||||
Alcohol | 0.58 | 1.03 | 0–6a | ||
Cigarettes | 0.17 | 0.68 | 0–6a | ||
Marijuana | 0.05 | 0.41 | 0–6a | ||
Other hard drugs | 0.02 | 0.25 | 0–6a | ||
Inhalants | 0.12 | 0.62 | 0–6a | ||
Violence and risk behaviors | |||||
Perpetrate criminal violence: attack another with knife, attack with pistol, threaten with knife, threaten with pistol, commit robbery | 0.09 | 0.41 | 0–4b | 5 | 0.89 |
Perpetrate bullying: hit, beat, push, hurt, or verbally abuse another | 0.62 | 0.90 | 0–4b | 5 | 0.88 |
Cheat on school exams | 0.20 | 0.62 | 0–4c | ||
Do something dangerous on a dare | 0.47 | 0.92 | 0–4c | ||
Suspended from school | 0.14 | 0.56 | 0–4c | ||
Substance use exposure | |||||
Access to substances: How easy to get alcohol, cigarettes, & marijuana | 1.72 | 0.86 | 1–4d | 3 | 0.87 |
Substance offers: Frequency offered alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and other drugs in the past year Peer influence | 0.15 | 0.45 | 0–4e | 4 | 0.83 |
Peer substance use: Proportion of school peers using alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana | 1.37 | 1.15 | 0–5f | 3 | 0.91 |
Friends’ substance use: Proportion of “best friends” using alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana | 0.46 | 0.78 | 0–5f | 3 | 0.85 |
Negative peer influence: would give in to peer pressure to smoke cigarettes, skip class, go out with friends instead of studying for exams, drink alcohol at a party, vandalize a library book, hang out with others who get in trouble (Yes/No) | 0.38 | 0.89 | 0–6g | 6 | NA |
Pro-drug attitudes | |||||
Positive substance use expectancies: substance use helps you deal with problems, relax, be happy, be creative, be part of a group, be less nervous, have fun at parties, know its effects | 1.72 | 0.81 | 1–4h | 8 | 0.93 |
Response categories:
Never/Once/2–3 times/4–9/10–19/20–39/40+ times.
Never/Once/Twice/3 times/4+ times.
Never/Once/2–3 times/4–9 times/10+ times.
Very difficult/Somewhat difficult/Somewhat easy/Very easy.
Never/Once/2–3 times/4–9 times/10+ times.
None/Almost none/Some/Half/Almost all/All.
Count of number of items responding yes.
Strongly disagree/Disagree/Agree/Strongly agree.