An Instrument for Assessing Coping with Temptation: Psychometric Properties of the Alcohol Abuse Coping Response Inventory

Abstract

In the current study, we examined psychometric properties of The Alcohol Abuse Coping Response Inventory (AACRI), a modification of the Coping with Temptation Inventory for recovering alcoholics. It demonstrated good internal reliability. Three internally consistent factors were identified, one behavioral factor, and two cognitive factors. The measure did not demonstrate adequate concurrent validity. As expected, cognitive coping responses were more predictive of later relapse than behavioral coping responses, and a combination of the two was most predictive of later relapse. In the incremental validity analysis, situational confidence was found to be most predictive of relapse outcome, while the AACRI cognitive coping subscale demonstrated adequate incremental validity. The AACRI was found to have incremental validity over the Coping Behaviours Inventory.