Explicit Sexual Interest Questionnaire - ESIQ

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Created: January 30, 2021

Last Modified: January 04, 2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements the Explicit Sexual Interest Questionnaire (ESIQ) by Banse et al (2010).

References

Banse, R., Schmidt, A. F., and Clarbour, J. (2010). Indirect measures of sexual interest in child sex offenders: A multimethod approach. Criminal Justice and Behavior 37, 319–335

Duration

1 minute

Description

The ESIQ features two subscales assessing sexual behavior (e.g., “I have enjoyed orally stimulating a man/woman/boy/girl.”) and sexual fantasy (e.g., “I have daydreamed of having sex with a man/woman/boy/girl”) with 5 items each. The ten fantasy and behavior items are combined with the four types of targets (man, woman, boy, or girl). Items are responded to in a dichotomous yes/no format.

This script runs the 'Behavior' and 'Fantasy' subscales in a blocked design (behavior subscale questions followed by the fantasy scale questions.) The questions within each subscale follow the order as described in table 1 in Benson et al (2010).

Instructions

provided by Millisecond - can be edited under section Editable Parameters

Summary Data

File Name: esiq_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant)

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
computer.touch 0 = device has no touchscreen capabilities; 1 = device has touchscreen capabilities
computer.hasKeyboard 0 = no external keyboard detected; 1 = external keyboard detected
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
behaviorScaleYesResponses Number of 'Yes' responses on the Behavior Subscale
behaviorScaleResponses Number of Behavior Subscale questions that participant responded to
behaviorScaleScore Proportion of 'Yes' responses on the Behavior Subscale
fantasyScaleYesResponses Number of 'Yes' responses on the Fantasy Subscale
fantasyScaleResponses Number of Fantasy Subscale questions that participant responded to
fantasyScaleScore Proportion of 'Yes' responses on the Fantasy Subscale

Raw Data

File Name: esiq.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject Participant ID
group Group number
session Session number
build Inquisit version number
q*_response Response given (in assigned values)
Scale: (1) Yes - (0) No
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)

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
Instructions Used In This Script
caption "Please answer the following questions."
subcaption "Note: Boy/Girl refer to prepubescent children below the age of 12 in this questionnaire

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