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August 24, 2026Discover Mental HealthOpen Access

Psychometric analysis of brief adolescent gambling screen, problem gambling severity index, and gambling motives questionnaire-financial among Ghanaian adolescents

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SASamuel AdjorloloSNSimon NyarkoSBSolomon Quansah Botchway

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Cross-sectional survey demonstrates the validity of sports betting severity and motive scales in Ghanaian adolescents, indicating their utility for school-based screening.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the factorial validity, internal consistency, measurement invariance, and convergent validity of three adolescent sports betting assessment tools in Ghana.
  • Conducted a cross-sectional survey of 514 high school adolescents (352 males and 162 females) across six public senior high schools in Accra, Ghana.
  • Evaluated the Brief Adolescent Sport Betting Screen (BASBS), Problem Sport Betting Severity Index (PSBSI), and Sport Betting Motives Questionnaire–Financial (SBMQF) using confirmatory factor analysis and multigroup confirmatory factor analysis across sex.
  • The PSBSI demonstrated a one-factor structure and the SBMQF supported a four-factor structure; both exhibited satisfactory internal consistency, sex measurement invariance, and expected convergent validity.
  • The BASBS yielded an acceptable one-factor structure but demonstrated lower internal consistency, incomplete measurement invariance across sex, and unexpected convergent validity.

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Adjorlolo et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8c005bbca056c88e6df15ahttps://doi.org/10.1007/s44192-026-00568-4
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