___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale Short (PACES-S) - 4 items ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 08-01-2025 last updated: 08-01-2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 08-01-2025 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the short Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PACES-S) by Chen et al (2021). to measure enjoyment of physical exercise activities which is said to play a role in excercise adherence. The PACES-S is a 4-item version of the original 18 items PACES by Kendzierski & DeCarlo (1991). /*Reference*/ Chen, C., Weyland, S., Fritsch, J., Woll, A., Niessner, C., Burchartz, A., Schmidt, S. C. E., & Jekauc, D. (2021). A Short Version of the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale: Development and Psychometric Properties. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), 11035. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111035 original 18 items PACES: Kendzierski, D., & DeCarlo, K. J. (1991). Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale: Two Validation Studies. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 13(1), 50–64. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.13.1.50 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ self-report measure consisting of 4 5-point Likert Scale questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 1 minute to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA OUTPUT DICTIONAIRY ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The fields in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'xxx.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 disagree) - 5 (strongly agree) 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: 'xxx_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each 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) pacesSTotal: the sum of all allocated points (1 point = strongly disagree) to (5points = strongly agree) Range: 4 - 20 + all 4individual responses