TY - JOUR
T1 - Deriving a Measure of Social Recovery Capital from the Important People and Activities Instrument
T2 - Construction and Psychometric Properties
AU - Francis, Meredith W.
AU - Bourdon, Jessica L.
AU - Chan, Grace
AU - Dick, Danielle M.
AU - Edenberg, Howard J.
AU - Kamarajan, Chella
AU - Kinreich, Sivan
AU - Kramer, John
AU - I-Chun Kuo, Sally
AU - Pandey, Ashwini K.
AU - Pandey, Gayathri
AU - Smith, Rebecca L.
AU - Bucholz, Kathleen K.
AU - McCutcheon, Vivia V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s).
PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - Aim: This study presents a measure of Social Recovery Capital (SRC) derived from the Important People and Activities instrument (IPA). Methods: The sample comprised young adults who participated in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism, a high-risk family study of alcohol use disorder (N = 2472). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis identified influential items and factor structure, adjusting for family relatedness. The final scale was tested for reliability and validity. Results: Factor analysis retained 10 items loading on three factors (Network Abstinence Behaviors, Basic Network Structure and Network Importance) that together explained 42% of the variance in SRC. The total model showed adequate fit (Comparative Fit Index = 0.95; Tucker Lewis Index = 0.93; Root Mean Square Error of Approximation = 0.06; Standardized Root Mean Squared Residual = 0.05) and acceptable reliability (α = 0.60; McDonald's ω = 0.73) and correlated with validation measures mostly in the weak to moderate range. Due to variable factor scores for reliability and validity, we only recommend using the total score. Conclusion: The SRC-IPA is a novel measure of SRC derived from the IPA that captures social network data and has applications in research and clinical work. Secondary data analyses using the SRC-IPA in studies that collected the IPA can further demonstrate the interaction of SRC with a wide variety of clinical indicators and demographic characteristics, making it a valuable addition to other measures of SRC.
AB - Aim: This study presents a measure of Social Recovery Capital (SRC) derived from the Important People and Activities instrument (IPA). Methods: The sample comprised young adults who participated in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism, a high-risk family study of alcohol use disorder (N = 2472). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis identified influential items and factor structure, adjusting for family relatedness. The final scale was tested for reliability and validity. Results: Factor analysis retained 10 items loading on three factors (Network Abstinence Behaviors, Basic Network Structure and Network Importance) that together explained 42% of the variance in SRC. The total model showed adequate fit (Comparative Fit Index = 0.95; Tucker Lewis Index = 0.93; Root Mean Square Error of Approximation = 0.06; Standardized Root Mean Squared Residual = 0.05) and acceptable reliability (α = 0.60; McDonald's ω = 0.73) and correlated with validation measures mostly in the weak to moderate range. Due to variable factor scores for reliability and validity, we only recommend using the total score. Conclusion: The SRC-IPA is a novel measure of SRC derived from the IPA that captures social network data and has applications in research and clinical work. Secondary data analyses using the SRC-IPA in studies that collected the IPA can further demonstrate the interaction of SRC with a wide variety of clinical indicators and demographic characteristics, making it a valuable addition to other measures of SRC.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85130003966
U2 - 10.1093/alcalc/agac014
DO - 10.1093/alcalc/agac014
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35356964
AN - SCOPUS:85130003966
SN - 0735-0414
VL - 57
SP - 322
EP - 329
JO - Alcohol and Alcoholism
JF - Alcohol and Alcoholism
IS - 3
ER -