Construction and Validation of the Addiction Susceptibility Questionnaire (ASQ)

AbstractThe purpose of the present study was to construct and validate an Addiction Susceptibility Questionnaire (ASQ) as well as to present a discriminant equation to test the discriminant power (DP) of the ASQ to predict subjects’ level of Addiction Susceptibility (AS). Two hundred and forty participants from four distinct of Iran took part in this study 120 of whom were recovered addicts and 120 were not addicts at all. They were all selected by stratified random sampling method. Results showed that at least four factors underlie the construct of AS. There is a significant difference between addicts and healthy individuals in each of these factors. There is also a positive correlation between the factors and the discriminant function (DF). In fact, these factors are reliable predictors of the AS. The predictive power of the discriminant equation was 97.2%. The PSQ was found to be a highly acceptable measure of Addiction Susceptibility and it is appropriate for adolescents and adults in clinical, educational and research settings