A Psychometric Evaluation of the SASSI-3 in a College Sample

✍ Scribed by John M. Laux; Kathleen M. Salyers; Ekaterina Kotova

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 79 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1099-0399
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-1882.2005.tb00071.x

✦ Synopsis

A lcohol use is a serious problem on college campuses (Collins, Koutsky, Morsheimer, & MacLean, 2001). In a given 2-week period, 40% of college students drank heavily at least once, and 22% did so 3 or more times (O'Malley & Johnston, 2002;Wechsler, Lee, Kuo, & Lee, 2000). Serious personal, peer, and institutional consequences accompany this type of drinking (Knight et al., 2002). Student alcohol use is associated with absenteeism, poor grades, regrets, relationship difficulties, unwanted sexual behaviors, personal injury, legal troubles, alcohol overdose, assault, and suicide (e.g., Engs, Diebold, & Hanson, 1996). Four out of 5 college students have been affected by others' alcohol use, including having personal property damaged and experiencing vandalism, hate-related incidents, and sexual violence (Perkins, 2002;Wechsler, et al., 2000). Colleges and universities experience property damage, attrition, lowered academic reputation, legal costs, and poor relations with the surrounding community (Perkins, 2002). Many students who present at college counseling centers have problems related to alcohol use. In fact, 31% of students receiving services in college counseling centers meet criteria for alcohol abuse, and 6% meet criteria for alcohol dependence (Knight et al., 2002). This number represents an increase of 44% from 1996 through 2000 (Gallagher, Sysko, & Zhang, 2001). For these reasons, Juhnke et al. (2002) suggested that college counselors should routinely conduct screening for alcohol use disorder.