In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors.
Citations
6,389 citations
4,946 citations
4,809 citations
2,695 citations
2,321 citations
References
8,264 citations
"In search of how people change: App..." refers background or methods in this paper
...For seven years we worked with a four-stage model, omitting the stage between contemplation and action ( Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983, 1985, 1986 )....
[...]
...Norcross, Prochaska, & DiClemente, 1991; Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983,1984 )....
[...]
...At least 10 subsequent principal component analyses on the processes of change items, conducted on various response formats and diverse samples, have yielded similar patterns (Norcross & Prochaska, 1986; Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983; Prochaska & Norcross, 1983; Prochaska, Velicer, DiClemente, & Fava, 1988)....
[...]
3,750 citations
Additional excerpts
...In our original research we had identified five stages ( Prochaska & DiClemente, 1982 )....
[...]
3,009 citations
"In search of how people change: App..." refers background in this paper
...Hundreds of psychotherapy outcome studies have demonstrated that people successfully change with the help of professional treatment (Lambert, Shapiro, & Bergin, 1986; Smith, Glass, & Miller, 1980)....
[...]
2,360 citations
"In search of how people change: App..." refers background or methods in this paper
...Stages of change have been ascertained by two different self-report methods: a discrete categorical measure, which assesses the stage from a series of mutually exclusive questions (DiClemente et al., 1991), and a continuous measure, which yields separate scales for precontemplation, contemplation, action, and maintenance (McConnaughy et al....
[...]
...As a group, individuals who are prepared for action report some small behavioral changes, such as smoking five cigarettes less or delaying their first cigarette of the day for 30 minutes longer than precontemplators or contemplators (DiClemente et al., 1991)....
[...]
...They used counterconditioning and stimulus control to begin reducing their use of addictive substances or to control the situations in which they relied on such substances (DiClemente et al., 1991)....
[...]
1,949 citations
"In search of how people change: App..." refers background or methods in this paper
...For seven years we worked with a four-stage model, omitting the stage between contemplation and action ( Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983, 1985, 1986 )....
[...]
...Approximately 15% of smokers who relapsed in our selfchange research regressed back to the precontemplation stage ( Prochaska & DiClemente, 1986 )....
[...]