The Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) was developed to assess four personality traits relevant to substance misuse risk: AS, HOP, IMP and SS. The 23-item SURPS was developed and validated by Woicik, Stewart, Pihl and Conrod [23] using factor analysis on a battery of personality and symptom inventories that tap these four personality dimensions and is the only brief personality assessment tool that provides relatively independent measurement of these four personality traits. It is suitable for self-administration by adolescents and adults [23], and the brevity of the scale is highly advantageous in applied research contexts where large numbers of participants are screened simultaneously or complete the scale as part of a larger assessment battery. It has also proven useful in clinical settings where time limitations are significant barriers to using psychometric tests. The SURPS has been translated into French, 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
