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Validity of Canadian Adolescent Gambling Inventory (CAGI) among a Sample of Croatian High-School Students

Canadian Adolescent Gambling Inventory (CAGI) is a recently developed instrument designed specifically for youth, with the aim to provide more reliable information about types and frequency of gambling, time and money spent gambling, but also to measure the severity of gambling related consequences (Tremblay et al., 2010). The latter (24 item) part of CAGI provides five different scores. The first four are related to consequences of gambling: (1) Psychological, (2) Social and (3) Financial consequences, and (4) Preoccupation and impaired control. The fifth score (Gambling Problem Severity Subscale–GPSS) includes items from above mentioned four factors as well as other items to provide a global severity score. CAGI was used in a Croatian national prevalence study on youth gambling among a probabilistic representative sample of high-school students from urban areas (n=1.948). Cross-cultural adaptation was done with authors’ permission through translation, back-translation, expert committee review and pre-testing. Factor analysis resulted in an interpretable two-dimensional solution accounting for 51% of the total variance. The internal consistency of both factors was high: (1) Psychological consequences and impaired control (α=.93), (2) Interpersonal and financial consequences (α=.85). The aim of this paper is to present and discuss psychometric characteristic of CAGI among a sample of Croatian high-school students, factorial stability and different factorial subsample solutions. Since the study included measures of a variety of other constructs (e.g. risk behavior, personality traits, motivation, cognitive distortions related to gambling), predictors of the two factors shall also be presented, as they contribute to their validity.

validity; gambling; CAGI; factor analysis

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