Sm. Sklar et al., DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE DRUG-TAKING CONFIDENCE QUESTIONNAIRE - A MEASURE OF COPING SELF-EFFICACY, Addictive behaviors, 22(5), 1997, pp. 655-670
The Drug-Taking Confidence Questionnaire (DTCQ; Annis & Martin, 1985)
is a 50-item self-report questionnaire developed to assess situation-s
pecific coping self-efficacy for use of a particular substance of abus
e (e.g., cocaine, heroin, alcohol, cannabis, etc.). Results from explo
ratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the DTCQ on 713 clients see
king treatment at an addiction treatment facility provided strong evid
ence for the situation-specificity of efficacy beliefs. An 8-factor fi
rst-order model, based on the eight high-risk categories for relapse i
dentified by G.A. Marlatt (Marlatt & Gordon, 1980) and a 3-factor seco
nd-order model (i.e., negative situations, positive situations, and te
mptation situations) provided the best fit to the data. All eight subs
cales of the DTCQ were shown to have good reliability (alphas .79 to .
95). Extensive convergent and discriminant validity analyses for the D
TCQ and its subscales in relation to ADS, DAST, OES, DRIE, SCQ, SCL-90
R BDI, HS, and SOCRATES substantiate that the DTCQ is a promising tool
for further research and clinical application. (C) 1997 Elsevier Scie
nce Ltd.