Alcohol expectancies are assessed with the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire- Adolescent, Brief (AEQ-AB (Brown et al., 1987; Stein et al., 2007)). This 7-item questionnaire was based on the AEQ-A, demonstrates two factors (general positive and general negative; accounting for 46.2% of the variance), has good internal consistency (0.49–0.51), and demonstrated validity in predicting adolescent drinks per week and average number of drinks per heavy drinking day (Stein et al., 2007).
