A COMPARISON OF ITALIAN, JAPANESE AND AMERICAN STUDENTS RESPONSES TO THE ADOLESCENT REINFORCEMENT SURVEY SCHEDULE

The Italian form of the Adolescent Reinforcement Survey Schedule (ARSS -I) was administered to (N = 648) high school boys and girls from nort hern and central Italy. Their responses were factor analyzed using a p rincipal component. VARIMAX rotation procedure (SAS Institute. Inc., 1 990). The 10 interpretable factors from the Italian data were compared and contrasted to factor analytic results from Holmes (1991, 1994) st udies using American and Japanese students. Additionally, the Italian data analyses includes an examination by gender using t tests for each of the ARSS-I items and an ANOVA for age and age-gender effects on re sponses to the ARSS-I. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.