ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2025
Adjusting for Measurement Bias in the MEEQ-B Across Sex and Race/Ethnicity in the ABCD Study.
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- Measurement invariance in the Youth Electronic Cigarette Outcome Expectancies Questionnaire across sex and race/ethnicity in pre- to early adolescence.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Latent classes of substance use precursors predict positive alcohol and cannabis expectancies one year later in Black and Latino early adolescents in the ABCD study.Addictive behaviors · 2026Article
- The role of peer influence in shaping developmental trajectories of substance use expectancies in early adolescence.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026Article
- The association of witnessing violence with alcohol and cannabis expectancies among Black, Latinx, and White youth: considering neighborhood context.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe primary aim of this study was to assess and adjust for measurement non-equivalence (bias) by sex, race/ethnicity, and co-occurring social identities (Sex × Race/Ethnicity) for the Marijuana Effect Expectancies Questionnaire-Brief (MEEQ-B) among Black, Latinx, and non-Latinx White youth. The second aim was to determine how group comparisons change after accounting for possible measurement bias.
methodBlack, Latinx, and non-Latinx White youth from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study Follow-up 3 (
resultsMeasurement non-equivalence was observed for positive and negative expectancies across sex, race/ethnicity, and their co-occurring social identities. MNLFA revealed between-group differences at the factor and item level. Further, comparisons of original (unadjusted) and MNLFA-generated adjusted scores revealed that unadjusted scores underestimated or did not detect some group differences in positive expectancies identified using adjusted scores, and unadjusted scores underestimated how much lower negative expectancies were in Black and Latinx relative to non-Latinx White youth.
conclusionsResults highlight the need for caution when interpreting scores of a measure like the MEEQ-B that has not undergone measurement equivalence testing and demonstrate how failing to adjust for non-equivalence can result in biased estimates of positive and negative expectancies, particularly when used with diverse populations.
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