TY - JOUR
T1 - Determination of the reliability and validity of the marijuana craving questionnaire using imagery scripts
AU - Singleton, Edward G.
AU - Trotman, Adria J M
AU - Zavahir, Marina
AU - Taylor, Richard C.
AU - Heishman, Stephen J.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of the Marijuana Craving Questionnaire (MCQ) by using active imagery of auditorily presented scripts. Current marijuana users (n = 48) imagined scripts that varied in amount of descriptors of desire to smoke marijuana, from no-urge to high-urge content. Self-reported marijuana craving significantly increased as a function of script-urge intensity on Factors 1, 3, and 4 of the MCQ. Homogeneity of items comprising each MCQ factor was examined, indicating no significant departures from unidimensionality. These results verify and extend the reliability and validity of the MCQ as a multidimensional measurement of marijuana craving. The data also suggest that drug craving is not an all-or-none phenomenon.
AB - The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of the Marijuana Craving Questionnaire (MCQ) by using active imagery of auditorily presented scripts. Current marijuana users (n = 48) imagined scripts that varied in amount of descriptors of desire to smoke marijuana, from no-urge to high-urge content. Self-reported marijuana craving significantly increased as a function of script-urge intensity on Factors 1, 3, and 4 of the MCQ. Homogeneity of items comprising each MCQ factor was examined, indicating no significant departures from unidimensionality. These results verify and extend the reliability and validity of the MCQ as a multidimensional measurement of marijuana craving. The data also suggest that drug craving is not an all-or-none phenomenon.
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U2 - 10.1037/1064-1297.10.1.47
DO - 10.1037/1064-1297.10.1.47
M3 - Article
C2 - 11871362
AN - SCOPUS:0036159561
VL - 10
SP - 47
EP - 53
JO - Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
JF - Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
SN - 1064-1297
IS - 1
ER -