Table 3.
Correlations (Pearson r’s) between TREAT items and scores on the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MC-SDS). 1
| PRECONTEMPLATION SCALE | |
| I do not think treatment will work for me. | −.10 |
| I do not think that other people can help me. | .05 |
| It’s nobody’s business what I do with my life. | −.04 |
| CONTEMPLATION SCALE | |
| I eventually may want help, but not now. | −.19+ |
| I’m uncertain about the need for treatment. | .10 |
| Treatment may help but I’m not yet ready for it. | −.08 |
| PREPARATION SCALE | |
| I think I need help. | −.23* |
| I want to talk to somebody now about my problems. | −.13 |
| I have decided to seek appropriate treatment. | −.11 |
| ACTION SCALE | |
| I have been seeking help for a short time now, but only half-heartedly. | −.18+ |
| I have been grudgingly accepting help for a short time now. | −.08 |
| For a short time now I have been accepting help but I have not gotten used to it, yet. | .00 |
| MAINTENANCE SCALE | |
| For more than a year now seeking and accepting help has been part of my life. | .07 |
| I have been accepting help for a long time. | .04 |
| I have been accepting help for more than a year now. | .00 |
*
p<.05
†
p<.10.
1
URICA and TREAT scales were given to non-overlapping samples of 100 participants.