User Manual: Inquisit Tendency To Forgive Scale


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								*Tendency to Forgive Scale  (TTF)*
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Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC
Date: 05-06-2016
last updated:  03-02-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC

Script Copyright © 03-02-2022 Millisecond Software

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BACKGROUND INFO 	
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This script implements a computerized version of Tendency to Forgive Scale (TTF) published in:

Brown, R. P. (2003). Measuring individual differences in the tendency to forgive: 
Construct validity and links with depression. 
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29(6), 759-771.

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OVERVIEW
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Self-report, 6 7-point Likert questions

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DURATION 
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the default set-up of the script takes appr. under 1 minute

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DATA FILE INFORMATION 
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The default data stored in the data files are:

(1) Raw data file: 'ttf.iqdat'

date, time:						date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber 
subject, group, session:	    with the current subject/groupnumber/session id
build:							the Inquisit build 

q*_response:					response given (in assigned values)
								Scale: 1 (strongly disagree) - 7 (strongly agree)
								R = automatically reversed scored questions
									
q*_latency:						how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage with this particular 
								question (the last time this particular surveypage was visited)
								
								
(2) Summary data file: 'ttf_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant)

inquisit.version:				Inquisit version run
computer.platform:				the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android)
startDate:						date script was run
startTime:						time script was started
subjectid:						assigned subject id number
groupid:						assigned group id number
sessionid:						assigned session id number
elapsedTime:					time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script
completed:						0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 
								1 = script was completed (all conditions run)
								
TTF_total:						total score (sum of all individual scores)
								Range: 6 - 42
								The higher the score, the higher the tendency to forgive

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INSTRUCTIONS 
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see section Editable Parameters
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EDITABLE CODE 
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check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. 
Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code 
to further customize your experiment.

The parameters you can change are:

/pageinstructions:				the main page instructions at the top of each surveypage