German, Dutch, Czech, Spanish, Japanese, Sri Lankan, Cantonese, Mandarin, Hebrew and Turkish and has shown good internal consistency, test–retest reliability and concurrent and predictive validity with respect to identifying current and future substance misuse among adolescents and young adults across many different cultural and political contexts (e.g. [23, 47–49]). Importantly, the SURPS has also been shown to have incremental validity over the NEO-FFI scales in predicting drinking problems [23] and prospective validity in predicting substance use outcomes [23, 30, 50, 51], as well as mental health outcomes [30, 37]. These studies also show that the SURPS subscales are specifically predictive of different patterns of psychopathology in theoretically relevant ways [28, 30, 31].
