___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ General Family Functioning Subscale (GFF-12/GFF-6) from the Family Assessment Device (FAD) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 05-15-2017 last updated: 02-23-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-23-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements a computerized version of the General Family Functioning Subscale (GFF-12/GFF-6) of the Family Assessment Device (FAD): FAD: Epstein, N. B., Baldwin, L. M., & Bishop, D. S. (1983). The McMaster family assessment device. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 9(2), 171–180. doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1983.tb01497.x. GFF-12/GFF-6: Boterhoven de Haan, K.L. et al (2015). Reliability and Validity of a Short Version of the General Functioning Subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment Device. Fam Proc, 54, 116–123. -> compares the GFF-6 (only positively worded statements) to GFF-12 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GFF-12: 12 statements, rated on 4-point Likert Scales (positively and negatively worded statements) GFF-6: 6 statements, rated on 4-point Likert Scales (only positively worded statements) Note: by default, this script runs the GFF-12. To run the GFF-6, go to section Editable Parameters and change a script setting. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 1 minute to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'generalfamilyfunctioningsubscale.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 agree) - 4 (strongly disagree) 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: 'generalfamilyfunctioningsubscale_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) version: "GFF-6" vs. "GFF-12" (depends on settings of parameters.runShortVersion) GFFScoreSum: the sum of all 12(6) responses Max GFF12: 48 (the higher the score the more dysfunctional is the family perceived by participant) Max GFF6: 24 GFFScore: the total score from 1.0-4.0 (values.GFFScoreSum divided by the number of questions) 12 individual responses ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ can be edited under section Editable Parameters ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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 presented on each surveypage /runShortVersion: true (1): the GFF-6 is run false (0): the GFF-12 is run (default setting)