___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Short Form of the Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ-30) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 02-20-2018 last updated: 02-24-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-24-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements a computerized version of the Short Form of the Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ-30) as described in: Wells, A., & Cartwright-Hatton, S. (2004). A short form of the metacognitions questionnaire: Properties of the MCQ-30. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 42(4), 385-396. doi:10.1016/S0005-7967(03)00147-5 Long Form of the Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ): Cartwright-Hatton, S., & Wells, A. (1997). Beliefs about worry and intrusions: the metacognitions questionnaire and its correlates. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 11, 279–296. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 30 4-point likert scale, self-report ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 3 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'mcq_30_survey.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 (do not agree) - 4 (agree very much) no 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: 'mcq_30_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) Score Interpretation: higher scores => higher levels of unhelpful metacognition Total: sum of all responses (score range: 30-120) zTotal: z-score of Total Score with Mean = 48.41, SD = 13.31 (see Wells & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004, Table 1, p.389) pTotal: percentile rank of z-score Subscales are calculated by summing the following items (score range: 6-24): cognitiveConfidence (lack of)= sum of (q8,q14,q17,q24,q26,q29) zCognitiveConfidence: z-score with Mean = 9.51, SD = 4.06 (see Wells & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004, Table 1, p.389) pCognitiveConfidence: percentile rank of z-score positiveBeliefs (about worry)=sum of (q1,q7,q10,q19,q23,q28) zPositiveBeliefs: z-score with Mean = 9.60, SD = 3.46 (see Wells & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004, Table 1, p.389) pPositiveBeliefs: percentile rank of z-score cognitiveSelfConsciousness = sum of (q3,q5,q12,q16,q18,q30) zCognitiveSelfConsciousness: z-score with Mean 11.65, SD = 4.68 (see Wells & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004, Table 1, p.389) pCognitiveSelfConsciousness: percentile rank of z-score uncontrollabilityDanger (negative beliefs about) = sum of (q2,q4,q9,q11,q15,q21) zUncontrollabilityDanger: z-score with Mean = 9.30, SD = 4.00 (see Wells & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004, Table 1, p.389) pUncontrollabilityDanger: percentile rank of z-score needControlThoughts = sum of (q6,q13,q20,q22,q25,q27) zNeedControlThoughts: z-score with Mean = 8.34, SD = 2.62 (see Wells & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004, Table 1, p.389) pNeedControlThoughts: percentile rank of z-score ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ slightly adapted from Cartwright-Hatton & Wells, A. (1997), see 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 instructions that appear at the top of each surveypage