Addiction Prone Personality tests and the prediction of substance use patterns in Canadian undergraduate students

Reexamining the Psychometric Properties of the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale

“…Not only is the SURPS used in substance use research in the United States, the SURPS has also been used worldwide, including countries like Hong Kong (Siu, 2010) Germany, Ireland, France, the United Kingdom (Jurk et al, 2015), The Netherlands (Malmberg et al, 2012), Sri Lanka (Chandrika Ismail, De Alwis Seneviratne, Newcombe, & Wanigaratne, 2009), Brazil (Canfield, Gilvarry, & Koller, 2014). Australia, The Republic of Korea (Saliba, Moran, & Yoo, 2014), and Canada (Barnes, Cea, Baker, Holroyd, & Stockwell, 2014; Mushquash, Stewart, Mushquash, Comeau, & McGrath, 2014). This measure has also been translated into several languages, including Spanish (Fernández-Calderón, Díaz-Batanero, Rojas-Tejada, Castellanos-Ryan, & Lozano-Rojas, 2017; Robles-García et al, 2014), Brazilian Portuguese (Canfield et al, 2014), French (O’Leary-Barrett et al, 2017), Dutch (Malmberg et al, 2010), Chinese (Siu, 2010; D.…”

“…Much work has examined correlations between SURPS subscales and substance use outcomes, such as alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis use, as well as related problems, among adolescents (Battista, Pencer, McGonnell, Durdle, & Stewart, 2013; Lammers, Kuntsche, Engels, Wiers, & Kleinjan, 2013; Malmberg et al, 2012; Malmberg et al, 2015; Moser, Pearson, Hustad, & Borsari, 2014) and college students (Barnes et al, 2014; Hustad, Pearson, Neighbors, & Borsari, 2014; Mackinnon, Kehayes, Clark, Sherry, & Stewart, 2014). For example, SS was found to be positively associated with peak blood alcohol content, and H with alcohol problems among college students (Moser et al, 2014).…”