Relapse situations and self-efficacy: An integrative model,☆☆

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Abstract

Researchers studying relapse for an addictive behavior have employed two different conceptual models. Researchers concerned with typologies of relapse situations have developed a variety of discrete classes of high risk situations. Researchers who have employed a Self-efficacy approach have typically assessed different situations but scored the measure as a single general construct. Using structural modeling, this paper evaluates five alternative measurement models, representing alternative conceptualizations. A hierarchical model which integrates the previously competing models provided the best fit to the data and serves to explain a large body of previous findings. The model includes three first order constructs (Positive/Social; Negative/Affective; and Habit/Addictive) and one general second-order factor. The results were replicated across two different response formats and two different subject samples.

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    This research was supported by Grant CA27821 from the National Cancer Institute.

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    An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Multivariate Behavioral Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 1987.

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    We thank Lisa Harlow for helpful comments.

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