Comprehensive Psychiatry (Nov 2023)
Psychometric properties of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) across cross-cultural subgroups, genders, and sexual orientations: Findings from the International Sex Survey (ISS)
- Zsolt Horváth,
- Léna Nagy,
- Mónika Koós,
- Shane W. Kraus,
- Zsolt Demetrovics,
- Marc N. Potenza,
- Rafael Ballester-Arnal,
- Dominik Batthyány,
- Sophie Bergeron,
- Joël Billieux,
- Peer Briken,
- Julius Burkauskas,
- Georgina Cárdenas-López,
- Joana Carvalho,
- Jesús Castro-Calvo,
- Lijun Chen,
- Giacomo Ciocca,
- Ornella Corazza,
- Rita Csako,
- David P. Fernandez,
- Hironobu Fujiwara,
- Elaine F. Fernandez,
- Johannes Fuss,
- Roman Gabrhelík,
- Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan,
- Biljana Gjoneska,
- Mateusz Gola,
- Joshua B. Grubbs,
- Hashim T. Hashim,
- Md. Saiful Islam,
- Mustafa Ismail,
- Martha C. Jiménez-Martínez,
- Tanja Jurin,
- Ondrej Kalina,
- Verena Klein,
- András Költő,
- Sang-Kyu Lee,
- Karol Lewczuk,
- Chung-Ying Lin,
- Christine Lochner,
- Silvia López-Alvarado,
- Kateřina Lukavská,
- Percy Mayta-Tristán,
- Dan J. Miller,
- Oľga Orosová,
- Gábor Orosz,
- Fernando P. Ponce,
- Gonzalo R. Quintana,
- Gabriel C. Quintero Garzola,
- Jano Ramos-Diaz,
- Kévin Rigaud,
- Ann Rousseau,
- Marco De Tubino Scanavino,
- Marion K. Schulmeyer,
- Pratap Sharan,
- Mami Shibata,
- Sheikh Shoib,
- Vera Sigre-Leirós,
- Luke Sniewski,
- Ognen Spasovski,
- Vesta Steibliene,
- Dan J. Stein,
- Julian Strizek,
- Meng-Che Tsai,
- Berk C. Ünsal,
- Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel,
- Marie Claire Van Hout,
- Beáta Bőthe
Affiliations
- Zsolt Horváth
- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; Centre of Excellence in Responsible Gaming, University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar; Corresponding author at: Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Izabella utca 46, Budapest H-1064, Hungary.
- Léna Nagy
- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- Mónika Koós
- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- Shane W. Kraus
- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Zsolt Demetrovics
- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; Centre of Excellence in Responsible Gaming, University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Gibraltar
- Marc N. Potenza
- Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, Wethersfield, CT, USA; Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT, USA
- Rafael Ballester-Arnal
- Departmento de Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología, University Jaume I of Castellón, Spain
- Dominik Batthyány
- Institute for Behavioural Addictions, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Austria
- Sophie Bergeron
- Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- Joël Billieux
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Center for Excessive Gambling, Addiction Medicine, Lausanne University Hospitals (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Peer Briken
- Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry; University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf; Hamburg, Germany
- Julius Burkauskas
- Laboratory of Behavioral Medicine, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Palanga, Lithuania
- Georgina Cárdenas-López
- Virtual Teaching and Cyberpsychology Laboratory, School of Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
- Joana Carvalho
- William James Center for Research, Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- Jesús Castro-Calvo
- Department of Personality, Assessment, and Psychological Treatments, University of Valencia, Spain
- Lijun Chen
- Department of Psychology, College of Humanity and Social Science, Fuzhou University, China
- Giacomo Ciocca
- Section of Sexual Psychopathology, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- Ornella Corazza
- Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom; Department of Psychocology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy
- Rita Csako
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
- David P. Fernandez
- Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
- Hironobu Fujiwara
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Decentralized Big Data Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan; The General Research Division, Osaka University Research Center on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues, Osaka, Japan
- Elaine F. Fernandez
- HELP University, Malaysia
- Johannes Fuss
- Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Roman Gabrhelík
- Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Addictology, Prague, Czech Republic; General University Hospital in Prague, Department of Addictology, Czech Republic
- Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan
- School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel
- Biljana Gjoneska
- Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, North Macedonia
- Mateusz Gola
- Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; Institute for Neural Computations, University of California San Diego, USA
- Joshua B. Grubbs
- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States; Center for Alcohol, Substance use, And Addiction (CASAA), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States
- Hashim T. Hashim
- University of Baghdad, College of Medicine, Iraq
- Md. Saiful Islam
- Department of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh; Centre for Advanced Research Excellence in Public Health, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh
- Mustafa Ismail
- University of Baghdad, College of Medicine, Iraq
- Martha C. Jiménez-Martínez
- Universidad Pedagógca y Tecnológica de Colombia, Colombia; Grupo de Investigación Biomédica y de Patología, Colombia
- Tanja Jurin
- Department of Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Ondrej Kalina
- Department of Educational Psychology and Psychology of Health, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia
- Verena Klein
- School of Psychology, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- András Költő
- Health Promotion Research Centre, University of Galway, Ireland
- Sang-Kyu Lee
- Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital, South Korea; Chuncheon Addiction Management Center, South Korea
- Karol Lewczuk
- Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland
- Chung-Ying Lin
- Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Biostatistics Consulting Center, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
- Christine Lochner
- SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Silvia López-Alvarado
- University of Cuenca, Ecuador
- Kateřina Lukavská
- Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Addictology, Prague, Czech Republic; Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic
- Percy Mayta-Tristán
- Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru
- Dan J. Miller
- College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University, Australia
- Oľga Orosová
- Department of Educational Psychology and Psychology of Health, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia
- Gábor Orosz
- Artois University, France
- Fernando P. Ponce
- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Talca, Chile
- Gonzalo R. Quintana
- Departamento de Psicología y Filosofía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Arica y Parinacota, Chile
- Gabriel C. Quintero Garzola
- Florida State University, Republic of Panama; Sistema Nacional de Investigación (SNI), SENACYT, Panama
- Jano Ramos-Diaz
- Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Peru
- Kévin Rigaud
- Artois University, France
- Ann Rousseau
- Leuven School For Mass Communication, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Marco De Tubino Scanavino
- Department of Psychiatry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, St. Joseph’s Health Care London and London Health Sciences Centre, London, Canada; Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Canada; Departmento e Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clinicas; and Experimental Pathophysiology Post Graduation Program, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Marion K. Schulmeyer
- Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
- Pratap Sharan
- Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi -110029, India
- Mami Shibata
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Sheikh Shoib
- Department of Health Services, Srinagar, 190001, India; Sharda University, Greater Noida, India; Psychosis Research Centre, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Vera Sigre-Leirós
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Luke Sniewski
- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Ognen Spasovski
- Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia
- Vesta Steibliene
- Laboratory of Behavioral Medicine, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Palanga, Lithuania
- Dan J. Stein
- SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Dept of Psychiatry & Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town
- Julian Strizek
- Austrian Public Health Institute, Austria
- Meng-Che Tsai
- Department of Pediatrics, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
- Berk C. Ünsal
- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel
- Département de Psychologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada
- Marie Claire Van Hout
- Public Health Institute, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
- Beáta Bőthe
- Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 127
p. 152427
Abstract
Introduction: Despite being a widely used screening questionnaire, there is no consensus on the most appropriate measurement model for the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Furthermore, there have been limited studies on its measurement invariance across cross-cultural subgroups, genders, and sexual orientations. Aims: The present study aimed to examine the fit of different measurement models for the AUDIT and its measurement invariance across a wide range of subgroups by country, language, gender, and sexual orientation. Methods: Responses concerning past-year alcohol use from the participants of the cross-sectional International Sex Survey were considered (N = 62,943; Mage: 32.73; SD = 12.59). Confirmatory factor analysis, as well as measurement invariance tests were performed for 21 countries, 14 languages, three genders, and four sexual-orientation subgroups that met the minimum sample size requirement for inclusion in these analyses. Results: A two-factor model with factors describing ‘alcohol use’ (items 1–3) and ‘alcohol problems’ (items 4–10) showed the best model fit across countries, languages, genders, and sexual orientations. For the former two, scalar and latent mean levels of invariance were reached considering different criteria. For gender and sexual orientation, a latent mean level of invariance was reached. Conclusions: In line with the two-factor model, the calculation of separate alcohol-use and alcohol-problem scores is recommended when using the AUDIT. The high levels of measurement invariance achieved for the AUDIT support its use in cross-cultural research, capable also of meaningful comparisons among genders and sexual orientations.
