Agreement between retrospective accounts of substance use and earlier reported substance use
Loading...
View/Download File
Persistent link to this item
Statistics
View StatisticsJournal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Title
Agreement between retrospective accounts of substance use and earlier reported substance use
Published Date
1985
Publisher
Type
Article
Abstract
This present study examined agreement between
retrospective accounts of substance use and earlier reported
substance use in a high school age sample.
Three issues were addressed: (1) extent of overall
agreement; (2) evidence for the presence of a
response-shift bias; and (3) extent to which current use
biases recall of substance use. Subjects were 415 high
school students who took part in a smoking prevention
program. At the last measurement, which took place
2½ years after the pretest, the students were asked to
recall pretest use of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana,
and use one year earlier. Results showed an overall
tendency for students to recall less use of uncontrolled
substances than had been previously reported. For the
one controlled substance included in the questionnaire,
marijuana, current nonusers tended to recall less use
than they had reported at the time, whereas current
users tended to recall more use than had been reported.
The present study found no evidence for a
response-shift bias. It is suggested that the explicitly
worded anchors on the response scales helped prevent
such a bias. Finally, the results suggest that current
use biases recall of past use to a substantial extent,
and that this bias affects recall of alcohol use most severely.
Keywords
Description
Related to
Replaces
License
Series/Report Number
Funding information
Isbn identifier
Doi identifier
Previously Published Citation
Collins, Linda M, Graham, John W, Hansen, William B & Johnson, C. Anderson. (1985). Agreement between retrospective accounts of substance use and earlier reported substance use. Applied Psychological Measurement, 9, 301-309. doi:10.1177/014662168500900308
Other identifiers
doi:10.1177/014662168500900308
Suggested citation
Collins, Linda M.; Graham, John W.; Hansen, William B.; Johnson, C. Anderson. (1985). Agreement between retrospective accounts of substance use and earlier reported substance use. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/102186.
Content distributed via the University Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. Materials in the UDC may contain content that is disturbing and/or harmful. For more information, please see our statement on harmful content in digital repositories.