Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Research on Social Work Practice
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Begun, A. L.
Right arrow Articles by Shelley, G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Characteristics of the Safe At Home Instrument for Assessing Readiness to Change Intimate Partner Violence

Audrey L. Begun

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Christopher Murphy

University of Maryland at Baltimore

Daniel Bolt

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Benjamin Weinstein

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Terri Strodthoff

Milwaukee Women's Center/Safe At Home Project

Lynn Short

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Injury Prevention

Gene Shelley

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Injury Prevention

Objective: This article describes the development, factor structure, concurrent validity, and predictive validity of the Safe At Home instrument, a 35-item self-report measure designed for social work assessment of individuals' readiness to change their intimate partner violence behaviors. Method: Multisite data (five sites, a total of 1,359 men at intake) addressed questions concerning instrument properties. Results: Initial exploratory factor analysis identified three scales that are consistent with the early stages outlined in the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change (Precontemplation, Contemplation, and Preparation/Action). Confirmatory factor analysis further supported the three-factor solution. Concurrent and predictive validity were examined on a subset of cases. Conclusions: The Safe At Home instrument has applicability for social work evaluation of batterer's treatment intervention; additional study is needed for reliable use as an individual clinical assessment tool.

Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 13, No. 1, 80-107 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1049731502238758
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Trauma Violence AbuseHome page
K. L. Scott and C. B. King
Resistance, Reluctance, and Readiness in Perpetrators of Abuse Against Women and Children
Trauma Violence Abuse, October 1, 2007; 8(4): 401 - 417.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Educational and Psychological MeasurementHome page
A. Li and J. Bagger
The Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR): A Reliability Generalization Study
Educational and Psychological Measurement, June 1, 2007; 67(3): 525 - 544.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Research on Social Work PracticeHome page
L. W. Bennett, C. Stoops, C. Call, and H. Flett
Program Completion and Re-Arrest in a Batterer Intervention System
Research on Social Work Practice, January 1, 2007; 17(1): 42 - 54.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 J Interpers ViolenceHome page
C. M. Murphy, T. M. Morrel, J. D. Elliott, and T. M. Neavins
A Prognostic Indicator Scale for the Treatment of Partner Abuse Perpetrators
J Interpers Violence, September 1, 2003; 18(9): 1087 - 1105.
[Abstract] [PDF]