This article reports the findings of a study undertaken to validate partially a new short-form
scale, the Index of Alcohol Involvement (IAI), that was designed to measure the degree or
magnitude of alcohol abuse. The purpose of the article is to provide basic psychometric
characteristics of the IAI and to provide guidelines for administration and scoring.
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