___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *POLICE STRESS QUESTIONNAIRE (PSQ)* ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 05-15-2017 last updated: 02-25-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-25-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements a computerized version of the Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) as described in: McCreary, D.R., & Thompson, M.M. (2006). Development of two reliable and valid measures of stressors in policing: The Operational and Organizational Police Stress Questionnaires. International Journal of Stress Management, 13, 494-518. By, default this script runs the 'The Operational Police Stress Questionnaire' (PSQ-Op; 20 items) and the 'Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire' (PSQ-Org; 20 items) in order. Test administrators have the option to run only one of these scales by changing parameter settings under section 'Editable Parameters'. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TASK DESCRIPTION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 surveys: PSQ-Op and PSQ-Org Each questionnaire contains 20 7-point Likert scale items. The final score for each scale is the average response score: the higher the final score, the more policing stress is perceived by participant. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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: 'policestressquestionnaire.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 at all stressfull) - 7 (very stressfull) 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: 'policestressquestionnaire_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) PSQ_Op: average response score on the PSQ-Op questionnaire PSQ_Org: average response score on the PSQ-Org questionnaire Note: the higher the score, the more policing stress is perceived by participant ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ QUESTIONNAIRE SET-UP ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Default Set-Up: Script runs PSQ-Op (20 questions), followed by PSQ-Org (20 questions) To run only one of the two questionnaires, go to section Editable Parameters and follow instructions. Each question is responded to on a 7-point Likert scale with the anchors: 1 not at all stressful to 7 = very stressful ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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: contains the default instructions /runPSQ_Op: true (1)= script runs PSQ-Op; false (0)=script does not run PSQ-Op /runPSQ_Or: true (1)= script runs PSQ-Org; false (0)=script does not run PSQ-Org