2.2.1. The Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital (BARC-10)

Abridged from the Assessment of Recovery Capital scale [47], the BARC-10 [43] is a 10-item measure of recovery, individual and social assets. Each item of the BARC-10 is scored on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree), with higher scores indicative of more recovery capital. The BARC-10 has been found to be psychometrically sound, with good concurrent validity with the original 50-item ARC (r = 0.92; [43]). Predictive validity has been demonstrated for ≥1-year abstinence with a cut-off score of 47 (the sumscore) [43]. Given the profile of the study respondents, a unipolar rather than a bipolar response format was chosen (1 = not at all agree; 2 = agree a little; 3 = agree somewhat; 4 = agree a lot and 5 = agree completely), as unipolar response formats are considered less cognitively demanding [48]. As such, scores could vary from 10 to 50, with higher scores indicating higher levels of recovery capital. Internal consistency for the current sample was α = 0.75.