User Manual: Inquisit Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)


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									Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)
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Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC
Date: 05-15-2017
last updated:  04-05-2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC

Script Copyright © 04-05-2023 Millisecond Software

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BACKGROUND INFO 	
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This script implements a computerized version of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) as described by:

Smith, B. W., Dalen, J., Wiggins, K., Tooley, E., Christopher, P., & Bernard, J. (2008). 
The brief resilience scale: assessing the ability to bounce back. 
International journal of behavioral medicine, 15(3), 194-200.

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OVERVIEW
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- self report
- 6 5-point Likert questions

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DURATION 
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the default set-up of the script takes less than a minute to complete

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

(1) Raw data file: 'briefresiliencescale.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) - 5 (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: 'briefresiliencescale_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)

BRSscore:						the average score (sum of all responses/6)
								Range: 1-5 => the higher the score, the higher the self-reported resilience


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INSTRUCTIONS 
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default instructions adapted from Smith et al (2008, p.195);
can be edited under 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 instructions displayed on the surveypage
								(default instructions adapted from Smith et al, 2008, p.195)