Routine Activities - Subject Baseline
This measure appears in the following time-points: Baseline.
Related Construct
Description of Measure
Items from the Routine Activities measure were drawn from the "Monitoring the Future Questionnaire" (Osgood, Wilson, O'Malley, Bachman, & Johnston, 1996) and are used to assess the frequency of unstructured socializing. Items specifically tap activities that occur in the absence of an authority figure (e.g., "How often did you get together with friends informally?"). The scale contains 3 items to which participants respond on a 5 - point Likert scale ranging from "Never" to "Almost every day". Higher scores indicate a greater involvement in unstructured activities. A fourth item is asked to specify the number of evenings in a typical week the participant spends on "fun" activities. Items were previously scored independently without an "unstructured socializing" total score (Osgood, et al., 1996); however, a combined score was created for the purpose of this study.
The Routine Activities measure was found to have adequate internal consistency at the baseline time-point (alpha = .62). Confirmatory factor analysis produces the following values: NFI and NNFI: .996 and .998 respectively, CFI: .999 and RMSEA: .012.
Computed score:
- unsupervised routine activities [s0rout]; the mean of all four questions. Data must be contained in three of the four items in order to receive a computed mean.
References
- Osgood, D.W, Wilson, J.K., O'Malley, P.M. Bachman, J.G., and Johnston, L.D. (1996). Routine activities and individual deviant behavior. American Sociological Review, 61, 635-655.