Motivation Among Exoffenders Exiting Treatment: The Role of Abstinence Self-Efficacy

Majer, John M.; Olson, Bradley D.; Komer, Anne C.; Jason, Leonard A.

doi:10.1080/10509674.2015.1023483

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“…26-28). In another recent article, Majer, Olson, Komer, and Jason (2015) found that self-efficacy was positively related to motivation for change in ex-offenders. Given that there are well-established psychological instruments that measure these variables, they may provide scope for testing convergent and discriminant validity.…”

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Measuring Offenders’ Belief in the Possibility of Desistance

O’Sullivan

Williams²,

Hong

et al. 2017

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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This article describes the use of a questionnaire to measure offenders' belief in the likelihood of their making a successful re-entry into society after having committed crime, a "belief in redeemability" (BIR) as described by Maruna and King. The 37 items for the scale were taken from statements by offenders about their prospects of making good. This set of items was tested with a pilot group of offenders recruited from clients on parole or on supervised bonds at community corrections offices in metropolitan Sydney, Australia, and their responses were coded to yield a score we called the "BIR" score. We found that scores displayed variance skewed toward an optimistic view, and we then used the items in a card sort task with a panel of graduate psychologists to explore whether the panel could identify underlying components of the broader BIR. There was a measure of agreement on three underlying components and these were further tested using five raters. We called the components that emerged the following: Belonging, Agency, and Optimism; Cronbach's alphas for these indicated acceptable internal consistency. The results are discussed in terms of their congruence with findings in the literature and their use in correctional practice.

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Measuring Offenders’ Belief in the Possibility of Desistance

O’Sullivan

Williams²,

Hong

et al. 2017

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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“…We called Factor 1 'Agency' because it loaded on items about personal effort and control as well as items on possibility of change and there is support for this construct in the recent literature (de Vries Robbé et al, 2015;Majer et al, 2015). We called Factor 2 'Optimism' because it included items on the achievability of reintegration and on a sense of being able to belong to society as a whole.…”

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The belief in redeemability – version 2 (BiR-2) scale and its relation to desistance

O’Sullivan

Levin²,

Bright

et al. 2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between the belief in redeemability – Version 2 (BIR-2) Scale and desistance from crime. It also seeks to explore how patterns of responding on the BIR-2 with offenders compare to previous patterns of responding in the general public. Design/methodology/approach The authors report the results of a study of offenders using the belief in redeemability – Version 2 (BiR-2) scale. In total, 180 offenders under the supervision of the Community Corrections Service (formerly the Probation and Parole Service) of New South Wales completed the ten-item questionnaire and when these data were combined with demographic and reoffending data collected by Corrective Services New South Wales, 168 sets of useable data were collected. Scores on the BIR-2 scale were compared to Level of Service Inventory – Revised (LSI-R) score, Most Serious Offence category, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status, number of custodial sentences in previous five years, age, gender and reoffending. Findings Results showed that the sample overall was closely representative of the caseload from which the study sample was drawn (a metropolitan community corrections office) and that BIR-2 scores showed a small, significant, negative correlation with LSI-R scores. Analysis of re-offending data indicated a small, positive, but non-significant correlation with BIR-2. Implications of this are discussed and future research outlined. Practical implications The paper suggests that it is worth attempting to measure belief in redeemability in the broader context of a narrative approach to desistance. Originality/value This is the first time that a scale has been used to test the importance of a belief in redeemability quantitatively and to permit the use of multivariate analysis.

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“…However, in drug treatment research, an area in which knowledge is currently lacking is the association between drug addicts’ motivation when entering drug treatment in relation to their level of self-efficacy. Moreover, existing research in this area has tended to focus on abstinence self-efficacy ( Kelly and Greene, 2014 ; Majer et al, 2015 ) rather than to explore the role of general self-efficacy which covers the overall beliefs in drug addict’s ability to succeed in treatment.…”

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The Mediating Role of Forgiveness and Self-Efficacy in the Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Treatment Motivation Among Malaysian Male Drug Addicts

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Studies have reported high rates of childhood maltreatment among individuals with drug addiction problems; however, investigation about the potentially protective factors to mitigate the effects of maltreatment experiences on motivation to engage in addiction treatment has received less attention. This study aims at exploring the mediating effects of forgiveness and self-efficacy on the association between childhood maltreatment and treatment motivation among drug addicts. A total of 360 male drug addicts (mean age = 33.34, SD = 7.25) were recruited from three mandatory inpatient rehabilitation centers in Malaysia. Participants completed a package of self-report questionnaires including measures of childhood maltreatment experiences, forgiveness, self-efficacy, and motivation for treatment. The analysis conducted using the structural equation model (SEM) revealed that childhood maltreatment significantly predicted lower treatment motivation, while forgiveness and self-efficacy played a fully mediating role regarding the effect of childhood maltreatment on treatment motivation. In conclusion, these findings suggest that combining the element of forgiveness and self-efficacy in treatment programs appears to benefit the drug addicts with childhood maltreatment history.

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Motivation Among Exoffenders Exiting Treatment: The Role of Abstinence Self-Efficacy

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

Measuring Offenders’ Belief in the Possibility of Desistance

Measuring Offenders’ Belief in the Possibility of Desistance

The belief in redeemability – version 2 (BiR-2) scale and its relation to desistance

The Mediating Role of Forgiveness and Self-Efficacy in the Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Treatment Motivation Among Malaysian Male Drug Addicts

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