User Manual: Inquisit Mindfulness Process Questionnaire


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									Mindfulness Process Questionnaire
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Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC
Date: 12-05-2016
last updated:  02-25-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC

Script Copyright © 02-25-2022 Millisecond Software

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BACKGROUND INFO 	
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This script implements the Mindful Process Questionnaire as described in:


Erisman, S.M & Roemer, L. (2012). A Preliminary Investigation of the Process of Mindfulness. 
Mindfulness, 3:30–43.

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OVERVIEW
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7 5-point Likert Scale (Originally 8 questions but question7 was officially dropped from the MDC 
by Erisman & Roemer(2012).

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DURATION 
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the default set-up of the script takes appr. 1.5 minutes to complete

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DATA FILE INFORMATION 
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The default data stored in the data files are:

(1) Raw data file: 'mindfulnessprocessquestionnaire.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 (not characteristic) - 5 (characteristic)
									R = automatically reversed scored questions
									
q*_latency:						how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage wit



(2) Summary data file: 'mindfulnessprocessquestionnaire_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)
							
MDCscore:						the total score (sum of all scores)
								Note: question 2 is reversed scored
								
+ all individual responses      (Note: q7 was officially dropped from the MDC by Erisman & Roemer(2012); the 7. question presented
								is the 8. question in the published survey)
								

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INSTRUCTIONS 
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see section Editable Parameters.

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EDITABLE CODE 
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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: