Development and Validation of a Scale Measuring Attitudes Toward Smoking

• Published in: The Journal of social psychology Vol. 140; no. 5; pp. 615 - 623
• Main Authors: Shore, Ted H., Tashchian, Armen, Adams, Janet S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Taylor & Francis Group 01.10.2000; Heldref; Clark University Press; Taylor & Francis Inc
• Subjects: Adolescents; Adult; Anniversaries; Attitude; Attitude Measures; Attitude tests; Attitudes; attitudes toward smoking; Biological and medical sciences; College Students; Confirmatory factor analysis; Eigenvalues; Female; Health Research; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Personality Tests - statistics & numerical data; Principal components analysis; Progress; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public policy; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; scale development and validation; Scales; Secondary School Students; Smoking; Smoking - adverse effects; Smoking - psychology; Smoking Attitudes Scale; Social Attitudes; Students; Students - psychology; Techniques and methods; Teenagers; Tobacco smoke; United States; United States of America; Validity; Validity studies; United States; Human; Test validation; Construct validity; Attitude; Evaluation scale; Young adult; Tobacco smoking; Psychometrics
• ISSN: 0022-4545; 1940-1183
• DOI: 10.1080/00224540009600501

The authors developed the Smoking Attitudes Scale (SAS) and administered it to 2 samples of U.S. students who were smokers or nonsmokers. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis with LISREL (K. G. Jöreskog & D. Sörbom, 1989) methodology revealed that the SAS consists of 4 factors. The overall instrument possesses good internal consistency and adequate construct validity as well.