The assessment of motivation for behaviour change among sex offenders against children: An investigation of the utility of the Stages of Change Questionnaire

Tierney, David W.; McCabe, Marita P.

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“…The questionnaires include the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment Scale (URICA: McConnaughy, DiClemente, Prochaska, & Velicer, 1989;McConnaughy, Prochaska, & Velicer, 1983), the Readiness to Change Questionnaire (RCQ: Heather & Rollnick, 1993), and the Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES: Miller & Tonigan, 1996). Of these scales, the URICA is the most widely used and psychometrically investigated across settings and populations (Carey et al, 1999;Eckhardt et al, 2004;Levesque et al, 2000;Tierney & McCabe, 2004). The URICA is a 32-item scale, designed to yield summary scores corresponding to the Precontemplation, Contemplation, Action, and Maintenance stages (McConnaughy et al, 1983(McConnaughy et al, , 1989.…”

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“…No satisfactory four-factor fit could be established (Eckhardt & Utschig, 2007). Tierney and McCabe (2004) applied a modified version of the URICA to a small sample of child sex offenders. They found no evidence of social desirability biases, and reported acceptable internal and testÁretest reliability and 'construct validity' (p. 242): limited to comparison of the pattern of inter-correlations between the subscales.…”

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“…Polaschek et al 2005). However, a second source of variation in findings may be difficulty in establishing reliably an offender's present stage of change (Belding, Iguchi, & Lamb, 1996;Tierney & McCabe, 2004). Decisions reached with inaccurate or divergent stage of change assessments may have serious practical implications, including allocating offenders to unsuitable interventions, or withholding interventions from offenders deemed to be unmotivated.…”

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The assessment of offending-related stage of change in offenders: psychometric validation of the URICA with male prisoners

Polaschek¹,

Anstiss²,

Wilson³

2010

Psychology, Crime & Law

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Measuring accurately an offender's present stage of change on offending-related needs may be important for determining match with Á and therefore selection into Á rehabilitation programmes. It is also essential testing empirically the dominant model of offending-related behavioural change Á the Transtheoretical Model (TTM). Several self-report questionnaire scales and algorithms have been developed and applied to offender populations to measure stage of change. The paper reports on an investigation into the psychometric properties (internal reliability, and factorial, convergent and concurrent validity) of the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment Scale (URICA), a self-report questionnaire. We compared the URICA with the New Zealand-designed Criminogenic Needs Inventory's structured algorithm for assessing motivation to change in a sample of 260 male prisoners. Both instruments are based on the TTM. Confirmatory factor analysis provided moderate support for the URICA's original four-factor structure. Strong correlations with the Criminogenic Needs Inventory data supported the validity of the URICA, as did the positive relationship between both measures and unconscious self-deception on the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding. However, neither measure was susceptible to consciously over-favourable self-presentation biases. The results of this study provide good preliminary support for the reliability and validity of the URICA in the assessment of offending-related stage of change in male prisoners, and in conjunction with other recent research, suggest it may be premature to abandon the adaptation of the TTM to the measurement of crime-reducing change processes.

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The assessment of offending-related stage of change in offenders: psychometric validation of the URICA with male prisoners

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Anstiss²,

Wilson³

2010

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“…Sex offenders have been found to be at varying stages of readiness to change their behavior (Tierney & McCabe, 2004). Research with other clinical problems would suggest that sex offenders who are at the higher Stages of Change are more likely to change than those at the earlier stages.…”

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The Utility of the Trans-Theoretical Model of Behavior Change in the Treatment of Sex Offenders

Tierney

McCabe

2005

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This paper discusses the use of the Trans-theoretical Model of Behavior Change in the treatment of sex offenders. Constructs within this theory are the Stages of Change, Processes of Change and Decisional Balance. The first section of this paper provides a brief description of these constructs. The second section provides a brief review of research related to these constructs and discusses the implications of this research in relation to the treatment of sex offenders. The third section of this paper provides a practical description of the use of the constructs of the Trans-theoretical Model of Behaviour Change in the treatment of sex offenders. Although the validity of this model among sex offenders requires further investigation, the Trans-theoretical Model of Behavior Change appears to have considerable utility as an overarching theoretical model to conceptualize and facilitate behavior change among sex offenders.

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“…This may lead to self-report measures of the SoC being susceptible to social desirability bias, thus, compromising the validity of these measures with this population (McMurran, 2009). Nonetheless, some studies have found psychometric evidence that these stage-based measurements were not influenced by social desirability bias (Polaschek, Anstiss, & Wilson, 2010;Tierney & Mccabe, 2004). Some have argued that the controlled prison setting limits offenders' opportunities to engage in attitudes and behaviours from the maintenance stage (Casey et al, 2005).…”

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How do offenders move through the stages of change?

Yong

Williams

Provan³

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Psychology, Crime & Law

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This study sought to investigate the way in which offenders moved through the stages of change. The University of Rhode Island Change Assessment Scale (URICA) was administered to a group of general offenders (N = 371) who participated in the Short Motivational Programme (SMP), a brief motivational interviewing programme administered to medium-risk offenders in New Zealand. The offenders' URICA responses were subjected to a cross-lagged panel analysis using structural equation modelling. Four models specifying different prospective associations between stage engagements were examined. It was hypothesised that there would be support for sequential transitions through the stages as proposed by the Stages of Change model. However, the analysis rendered support for and against sequential transitions, in that offenders regressed to earlier stages or skipped a stage post-SMP. Offenders who skipped to an adjacent stage after the SMP may have actually passed through an intermediary stage during the intervention, and those who regressed to an earlier stage post-SMP may have gained a more realistic awareness of their problem behaviour. This finding also raises questions about the practical utility of the model with offenders and highlights the need for more rigorous studies investigating the way offenders move through the stages of change.

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The assessment of motivation for behaviour change among sex offenders against children: An investigation of the utility of the Stages of Change Questionnaire

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

The assessment of offending-related stage of change in offenders: psychometric validation of the URICA with male prisoners

The assessment of offending-related stage of change in offenders: psychometric validation of the URICA with male prisoners

The Utility of the Trans-Theoretical Model of Behavior Change in the Treatment of Sex Offenders

How do offenders move through the stages of change?

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