Revalidating the Substance Abuse Treatment Self-Efficacy Scale (SATSES): A Replication With Social Work Practitioners

Abstract

This study was designed primarily to replicate the factor structure of the Substance Abuse Self-Efficacy Scale (SATSES;Kranz, 2003), a measure of social worker's perceived self-efficacy regarding substance abuse knowledge and skills. Sixty-six percent ( N = 143) of practicing social workers sampled responded to the mailed survey. Results revealed strong support for the reliability and factorial validity of the scale, and partial support for concurrent validity. Implications for education and training of social workers in substance abuse interventions are discussed, including the need for self-efficacy assessments and more objective evaluation methods.

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“…However, the value of replication studies is usually underestimated, resulting in a very small number of studies actually being replicated. For example, Kranz and O'Hare (2011) demonstrated the factorial validity and reliability of the Substance Abuse Treatment Self-Efficacy Scale through replicating their own previous studies conducted in 2003 (Kranz 2003) and 2006 (Kranz and O'Hare 2006), respectively. Ma, Shek, and Leung (2019) successfully replicated two previous studies (i.e.…”

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“…Not only has it been employed across many other fields, it has been used in a variety of situations in social work education and practice. These include the following: discussions of the social work educational process in general and outcomes assessment specifically (e.g., Calderon, 2013; Carpenter, 2011; Green, 2003; Montcalm, 1999; Petrovich, 2004; Spitzer et al, 2001); as a predictor of: intentions to remain employed in child welfare (Ellett, 2009), research activity of social workers (Lynch, Zhang, & Korr, 2009), and for domestic violence screening by social workers (Tower, 2003); as an outcome in a conceptual model of practice with battered women (Danis, 2004), an HIV risk reduction intervention study (Icard, Schilling, & El Bassel, 1995), a comparison of services for battered women (Mancoske, Standifer, & Cauley, 1994), and a study of a wilderness adventure therapy intervention (Clem, Smith, & Richards, 2012); as a factor in a model that portrayed bachelor of social work (BSW) and master of social work (MSW) research instructors perceptions of their students (Maschi, Wells, Slater, MacMillan, & Ristow, 2013); and one that examined BSW field instructor attitudes toward evidence-based practice (Wiechelt & Ting, 2012); in the development of the Substance Abuse Treatment Self-Efficacy Scale (Kranz, 2003; Kranz & O’Hare, 2006, 2011), and as a component of two versions of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale (Parrish & Rubin, 2011; Rubin & Parrish, 2011); as an outcome measure for an intervention by BSW students with foster youths (Bruster & Coccoma, 2013), training in parental mental illness/child protection for social workers (Carpenter, Patsios, Szilassy, & Hackett, 2011), a developmental program for newly qualified child and family social workers (Newly Qualified Social Workers; Carpenter, Shardlow, Patsios, & Wood, 3), an intervention designed to enhance analytic abilities related to the assessment process for children and families (Platt, 2011), and an intervention designed to disseminate an evidence-supported intervention to community practitioners (Woody, Anderson, & D’Souza, 2015); as an outcome measure for a meta-analysis of the impact of youth empowerment programs (Morton & Montgomery, 2013), an evaluation of a training course for child protection workers (Maxwell, Scourfield, Holland, Featherstone, & Lee, 2012…”

“…in the development of the Substance Abuse Treatment Self-Efficacy Scale (Kranz, 2003; Kranz & O’Hare, 2006, 2011), and as a component of two versions of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale (Parrish & Rubin, 2011; Rubin & Parrish, 2011);…”

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“…The SATSES has demonstrated reliability, including high levels of internal consistency for all subscales ranging from .89 to .96 (Kranz & O'Hare, ). Results of a study further validating the SATSES revealed strong support for the reliability and factorial validity of the scale (Kranz & O'Hare, ). In the current study, the Cronbach's alphas for the Assessment and Treatment Planning, Individual Counseling, and Case Management subscales were .95, .91, and .92, respectively.…”