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SURPS: substance use risk profile scale

mg morgane guillou-landreat
ET Elkhan Tahmazov
SB Schreck Benoit
MG Marie Grall-bronnec
PC Patricia Conrod
AL Audrey Livet
EN Emmanuel Nowak
JR Jean -Yves Le Reste
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The Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) is a screening instrument for personality traits identified as related to the risk of developing of addictive disorders. The SURPS consists of 23 items assessing four dimensions: Impulsivity, sensation-seeking, negative thinking and anxiety. The SURPS was created by Woicik et al. [17] and includes 23 items, to which young people are asked to respond using a 4-point Likert scale, ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree: negative thinking (7 items), sensitivity to anxiety (5 items), impulsivity (5 items) and sensation-seeking (6 items).

The four different personality dimensions measured are associated with a high risk of developing addictive disorders. It was validated in French on a population of students from Quebec. The psychometric properties of the French version were satisfactory and comparable to previous studies and to the original version. The thresholds defined as risk-related were calculated according to means and standard deviations, and for the French version are: Negative thoughts = 15; Anxiety = 13; Impulsivity = 14; Sensation seeking = 17 [8].

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