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Future Outlook Inventory (FOI) - Subject Baseline

This measure appears in the following time-points: Baseline.

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Description of Measure

The 15-item Future Outlook Inventory used in this study was developed by Cauffman and Woolard (1999; unpublished), using items from the Life Orientation Task (Scheier & Carver, 1985), the Zimbardo Time Perspective Scale (Zimbardo, 1980), and the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (Strathman, Gleicher, Boninger, & Edwards, 1994). The Future Outlook Inventory asks participants to rank from 1 to 4 (1= Never True to 4= Always True) the degree to which each statement reflects how they usually are (e.g., I will keep working at difficult, boring tasks if I know they will help me get ahead later). Higher scores indicate a greater degree of future consideration and planning.

Initial psychometric properties for this measure were established with a non-incarcerated sample. With that sample, the reliability coefficient = .71 and the measure correlated with self-reports of risk perception among high school and college students. Using the Pathways baseline sample, a one-factor CFA model was fit to the data, allowing measurement error for two items to correlate. The values from this analysis are as follows: alpha: .68; NFI: .96; NNFI: .96; CFI: .97; RMSEA: .03. Additionally, the Chronbach's alpha for Mexican American youth (N=334) at baseline only is .67.

One score is computed from this measure:

In addition to the subscale score above, instructions for computing a summary score that combines scores from the PSMI, FOI, WAI and Resistance to Peer Influence is available. This summary score is called maturity of judgment (MOJ). A separate codebook section describes step-by-step instructions for computing the MOJ score.

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