Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale.

SOCRATES

What it measures

Motivation and readiness to change substance use on 3 scales - Recognition (of the problem), Ambivalence, and Taking Steps

Length and format

19 items. 5-pt Likert agreement (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

15+ langs (ES, PT, ZH, TR, FA, FR, DE, KO, PL among them; approx)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

public-domain / open

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Reference

Miller, W.R., & Tonigan, J.S. (1996). Assessing drinkers' motivation for change: the Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES). Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 10(2), 81-89.