caa a22 4500 463198840 CHVBK 20180406164930.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10896-007-9088-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10896-007-9088-9 Assessing Readiness to Change among Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Analysis of Two Self-report Measures [Elektronische Daten] [Christopher Eckhardt, Angela Utschig] Recent interest in the construct of motivation to change among male perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV) has led to development of two self-report measures of this construct: the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment for Domestic Violence (URICA-DV; Levesque et al. 2000) and the Safe at Home Inventory (SAH; Begun et al. 2003). We examined the internal structure of these instruments using confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses in a sample of 199 male IPV perpetrators waiting to begin court-mandated batterer intervention programs. Results indicated that the scales had adequate internal consistency. However, using confirmatory factor analyses, the hypothesized structural models of each instrument fit the data poorly. Subsequent models suggested by a series of exploratory factor analyses failed to improve model fit substantially for both scales. For the URICA-DV, a 3-factor model including items from the Precontemplation, Contemplation, and Action subscales fit the data adequately. No acceptable model fit could be found for the SAH. Intercorrelations among similar subscales across the two inventories suggested only a modest degree of intercorrelation (r's = 0.16-0.52), and a factor structure more dependent on scale of origin than item latent content, suggesting that the scales assess different facets of the readiness to change construct. These results suggest that before the stages of change construct can be fully applied to the IPV area, more research and evaluation are needed on how to accurately assess abuser readiness to change. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Intimate partner violence nationallicence Readiness to change nationallicence Measurement nationallicence Transtheoretical model nationallicence Abusive men nationallicence Eckhardt Christopher Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 3rd St., 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA aut Utschig Angela Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA aut Journal of Family Violence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 22/5(2007-07-01), 319-330 0885-7482 22:5<319 2007 22 10896 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-007-9088-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-007-9088-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eckhardt Christopher Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 3rd St., 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Utschig Angela Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Family Violence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 22/5(2007-07-01), 319-330 0885-7482 22:5<319 2007 22 10896 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer