Perceived alcohol stigma: factor structure and construct validation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There has been an increasing interest in studying the stigma of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) yet scant research has evaluated the conceptualization and measurement of alcohol stigma. This study examined the measurement properties (i.e., factor structure) and validity of the alcohol-adapted Perceived Devaluation-Discrimination scale (PDD), which assesses the construct of perceived alcohol stigma (PAS).

Methods

Our sample included 34,386 respondents from the Wave 2 assessment in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, a population-representative survey of noninstitutionalized U.S. adults. Analytic procedures included confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling.

Results

One-factor (perceived devaluation-discrimi

SUBMITTER: Glass JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3893041 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature