To Drink or Not to Drink: A Multiple Sample CFA on the Decisional Balance Factors in Adolescents

The study, based on the Transtheoretical Model, assessed whether decisional balance factors of the pros and cons of alcohol use were invariant across two random subsets of a sample of 4,158 participants, ages 11-15 years. Confirmatory factor analyses, constraining equal parameters across the two subsets, revealed a parallel-forms invariant structure.