Predicting Treatment Seekers' Readiness to Change Their Drinking Behavior in the COMBINE Study

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research Volume 33 Issue 5, Pages 879 - 892

This measure demonstrated good psychometric properties and results supported the independence as well as convergent and divergent validity of the measured constructs. Predictors of overall readiness and subscale scores indicate that a variety of personal and contextual factors contribute to treatment seekers' motivation to change in an understandable but complex manner.

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