AN UPDATED RELIABILITY OF THE STUDENT ALCOHOL QUESTIONNAIRE (SAQ) FOR RESEARCHERS

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1992

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The Student Alcohol Questionnaire (SAQ) was developed during the 1973-1974 academic year as part of an alcohol awareness educational program at Indiana University called "Booze and You’s." Since it is frequently used by academics and students for research and classroom projects, an updated reliability was considered important. In 1990-1991, a sample of 6,534 students attending 104 different colleges and universities as part of a long term study with David J. Hanson, was used to test the reliability. Results revealed that the reliabilities of the Quantity/Frequency of drinking, Problems Resulting from Drinking, and Knowledge of Alcohol scales of the Student Alcohol Questionnaire were still highly reliable. The Spearman-Brown reliability coefficients of the subscales were .84, .89, .85, respectively. Values of the Cronbach alpha for the three subscales were .86, .92, .86, respectively.

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Research papers on student drinking using the SAQ can be found at: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17130/browse?type=title; https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17127/browse?type=title and https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17124/browse?type=title. Further information about the questionnaire, calculations used for the study, and the original data base can be found in the following item records within IUScholarworks repository. Details about the reliability and validity of the SAQ are found at: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17182; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17154; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17181. The classic 1975 copy of the SAQ is found at http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17153. ALL QUESTIONNAIRES developed by Engs are found in the repository at: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17141/browse?type=dateissued

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Student Alcohol Questionnaire (SAQ) 1992, updated reliability

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Engs, Ruth C. (1992) AN UPDATED RELIABILITY OF THE STUDENT ALCOHOL QUESTIONNAIRE (SAQ) FOR RESEARCHERS. Bloomington, IN: White Paper,1992. Retrieved from the IUScholarWorks repository at http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17182

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This work is licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. For permission to reuse this work for commercial purposes, please contact Dr. Ruth Engs or the IU Archives.

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