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The Motivation for Alcohol Reward: Predictors of Progressive-Ratio Intravenous Alcohol Self-Administration in Humans
Published on: April 28, 2022
Latent variable models of alcohol-related constructs
R D Lennox1, G A Zarkin, J W Bray
1Applied Psychometrics Laboratory, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194, USA.
Abstract:
This study examines the improvement in validity coefficients and structural relationships derived from formally modeling latent variables of adverse alcohol-related constructs. Results of a confirmatory factor analysis of responses from 8,755 participants in the 1988 National Household Survey of Drug Abuse support a three-factor model of alcohol abuse, dependence, and adverse consequences. A comparison of construct intercorrelations shows latent variables to be superior to measurement approaches using unweighted sums, quantity x frequency calculation, and single-item measurement.
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