___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Decisional Forgiveness Scale (DFS) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 05-09-2016 last updated: 02-21-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-21-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the Decisional Forgiveness Scale (DFS) as described in: Worthington et al (2012):“Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness: Conceptualization and Development of Self- Report Measures.” (unpublished manusscript) This instrument can be found on page 39 of “Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness: Conceptualization and Development of Self- Report Measures.” Available online at: http://www.evworthington-forgiveness.com/assessment-scales/ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8 5-point Likert Scale. 2 Subscales: 1. Inhibition of Harmful Intentions 2. Prosocial Intentions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 2 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'dfs.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 (stronglye 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: 'dfs_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) IHI: Inhibition of Harmful Intention Subscale score (items reversed scored where appropriate) (Range:4-20) PSI: Prosocial Intention Subscale score (items reversed scored where appropriate) (Range: 4-20 ) total: total score (range: 8-40) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ QUESTIONNAIRE SET-UP ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8 5-point Likert Scale. 2 Subscales: 1. Inhibition of Harmful Intentions (questions: 1*, 4*, 6*, 8); the lower the score, the fewer harmful intentions are inhibited 2. Prosocial Intentions (questions: 2*, 3, 5, 7*); the lower the score, the fewer intentions are prosocial * reversed scored questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ see section Editable Parameters (instructions are original to Worthington et al, 2012) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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 default instructions used