__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *The Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ)* ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 05-04-2018 last updated: 02-28-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-28-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements a computerized version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ) by: Fonagy P, Luyten P, Moulton-Perkins A, Lee YW, Warren F, Howard S, et al. Development and validation of a self-report measure of mentalizing: The Reflective Functioning Questionnaire. PLOS ONE. 2016;11(7):e0158678. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158678 downloaded from: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/research/rfq ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8 7-point Likert Scale, self-resport ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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: 'rfq8.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 1-7, no rescoring/reversed scoring of raw data) see summary data file for rescored data 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: 'rfq8_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) RFQ_c: Certainty about Mental States => rescoring of q1, q2, q3, q4, q5, q6 responses into values.RFQ_c1-values.RFQ_c6 with 1 = 3; 2 = 2; 3 = 1; 4+ = 0 => mean of the rescored RFQ_c values = RFQ_c RFQ_u: Uncertainty about Mental States => rescoring of q2, q4, q5, q6, q8 responses into values.RFQ_u2-values.RFQ_u8 with 4 and below = 0, 5 = 1, 6 = 2, 7 = 3 => rescoring of q7 into values.RFQ_u with with 1 = 3; 2 = 2; 3 = 1; 4+ = 0 => mean of the rescored RFQ_u values => RFQ_u + original & rescored responses Example: radiobuttons.q1.response: original response RFQc1: rescored response (see above) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ QUESTIONNAIRE SET-UP ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8 7-point Likert Scale, self-resport ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ see 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