Short form of a situational temptation scale for heavy, episodic drinking

Purpose: A short form for situational temptations to drink scale was develo ped from an original dl-item inventory by;Migneault. Methods: The form meas ured four hypothesized subscales of temptations on a sample of 348 college drinkers (66% female). Peer pressure, social anxiety, negative affect, and positive/social situations subscales were replicated and reduced Results: S trong empirical support was found for a hierarchical model, indicating that the four subscales can be summed to provide a global measure of situationa l temptations. Confirmatory factor results, internal and external validity, and high correlations with the original measures indicate that the short f orm was as psychometrically valid as the original measure. Implications: Me asures of external validity demonstrated the applicability of this measure to heavy drinking prevention programs.