The Comprehensive Effects of Alcohol (CEOA) questionnaire measures an individual’s outcome expectancy of drinking alcohol on a variety of domains: Sociability, Tension Reduction, Liquid Courage, Sexuality, Cog. and Beh. Impairment, Risks and Aggression, and Self-Perception.
ITEM CODING
The CEOA consists of 38 items that are rated on a 4-point Likert scale as follows:
| Disagree | Slightly disagree | Slightly agree | Agree | |
| 1 | 4 |
SCALES
The CEOA yields 7 primary scales. Description of the scales and item loadings are listed below. Scale scores are calculated as the sum of respective items. No items are reverse scored.
| SCALE NAME (ABBR.) | ITEM LOADINGS |
|---|---|
| Sociability (SOC) | 1, 3, 5, 14, 24, 31, 34, 38 |
| Tension Reduction (TR) | 18, 27, 29 |
| Liquid Courage (LC) | 19, 20, 21, 22, 37 |
| Sexuality (SEX) | 7, 12, 16, 32 |
| Cog. and Beh. Impairment (CBI) | 2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 26 |
| Risks and Aggression (RA) | 10, 17, 25, 35, 36 |
| Self-Perception (SP) | 4, 28, 30, 33 |
RESOURCE FILES
REFERENCES
Fromme, K., Stroot, E., & Kaplan, D. (1993). Comprehensive effects of alcohol: Development and Psychometric assessment of a new expectancy questionnaire. Psychological Assessment, 5, 19-26.
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