___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale (SBSOD) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 05-12-2017 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 'Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale' as described in: Hegarty, M. Richardson, A. E., Montello, D. R., Lovelace, K & Subbiah, I. (2002). Development of a Self-Report Measure of Environmental Spatial Ability. Intelligence, 30, 425-447. downloaded from: http://spatiallearning.org/index.php/testsainstruments ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15 7-point Likert Scale questions on sense of direction (self-report) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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: 'senseofdirectionsurvey.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)-7 (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: 'senseofdirectionsurvey_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) SODtotal: sum of all 15 scores (reversed scoring automatically applied) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ QUESTIONNAIRE SET-UP & SCORING ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15 questions: 7 point Likert Scales 2, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15: strongly agree = 1 - strongly disagree = 7 1R, 3R, 4R, 5R, 7R, 9R, 14R: strongly agree = 7 - strongly disagree = 1 => higher rating indicates a better self-report SOD ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ minimally altered (=>to reflect the computerized input modality) original instructions; can be edited under section Editable Instructions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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 /pageinstructions2: the instructions that appear at the top of each surveypage