The Empowerment Scale, Rogers (ESR) - AKA Making Decisions Empowerment Scale
Overview
- Purpose
- Measure beliefs about the social worth of people with mental illness.
- Respondent
- Person with a Disability
- Administration Method
- Interview
- Administration Mode
- In-person
- Developer
- Rogers, Chamberlin, Ellison, & Crean 0
- Population
- Mental Health Challenges
Instrument Citation(s)
The Empowerment Scale (must purchase). https://www.naric.com/?q=en/content/making-decisions-%E2%80%93-empowerment-scale
Ralph, R.O., Kidder, K., & Phillips, D. (2000). Can we measure recovery? A compendium of recovery and
Recovery-related instruments, Volume I. Cambridge, MA: The Evaluation Center @ Human
Services Research Institute.
Missouri Institute of Mental Health. Program in Consumer Studies and Training Multi-site Protocol 1.2. https://pocc.org/assets/Uploads/COSP-FUPQ-by-Q-1.2-May-23-2001.pdf 
Psychometric Citations
Wowra, S.A., & McCarter, R. (1999). Validation of the Empowerment Scale with an outpatient mental health population. Psychiatric Services, 50, 959-961
- Type of Publication
- Peer review
- Instrument Language
- English
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
36-55 (62%)
- Sample: Age Group
18-64 Years
- Sample: Countries/State
United States, South Carolina
- Sample: Disability Type
Mental Health Challenges
- Sample: Gender (%male)
33%
- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
64% Caucasian
- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Simple Random Sample
- Sample: Size
283
- Reliability: Internal Consistency
0.85
- Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)
EFA with varimax rotation yielded five factors.
- Study design
- Cross-sectional
Rogers, E.S., Ralph, R.O., & Salzer, M.S. (2010). Validating the Empowerment Scale with a multisite sample of consumers of mental health services. Psychiatric Services, 61, 933-936.
- Type of Publication
- Peer review
- Instrument Language
- English
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
Mean=43 years
- Sample: Age Group
18-64 Years
- Sample: Countries/State
United States
- Sample: Disability Type
Mental Health Challenges
- Sample: Gender (%male)
40%
- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
57% white
17% African American
26 others- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Simple Random Sample
- Sample: Size
1827
- Reliability: Internal Consistency
0.82
- Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)
CFA of five factors without three items showed a CFI = .878, RMSEA = .070
- Validity: Criterion Validity (Concurrent and Predictive)
Correlation with other measure range from .25 to .67.
- Study design
- Cross-sectional
Corrigan, P.W., Faber, D., Fadwa, R., & Leary, M. (1999). The construct validity of empowerment among consumers of mental health services. Schizophrenia Research, 38, 77-84.-1496.
- Type of Publication
- Peer review
- Instrument Language
- English
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
Mean=33.1 years
- Sample: Age Group
18-64 Years
- Sample: Countries/State
United States
- Sample: Disability Type
Mental Health Challenges
- Sample: Gender (%male)
65%
- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
57% African American
37% European American
6% other- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Convenience Sample
- Sample: Size
35
- Reliability: Test-retest
r >.75 for six of the seven scales: self-efficacy, powerlessness, self-esteem, effecting change, optimism/control over future, and group/community action; r = .38 for righteous anger
- Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)
EFA with varimax rotation yielded two superordinate factors that accounted for 60% of the variance.
- Validity: Criterion Validity (Concurrent and Predictive)
Subscales were shown to converge significantly with predicted measures of social support, quality of life, and depression; verbal intelligence was correlated with community orientation to empowerment.
- Study design
- Cross-sectional