Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond
Created: January 02, 2016
Last Modified: January 26, 2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond
Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC
This script implements the Attitudes towards Chocolate Questionnaire (Benton et al, 1998).
Benton, D., Greenfield, K. & Morgan, M. (1998). The development of the attitudes to chocolate questionnaire, Personality and Individual Differences, 24, 513-520. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886997002158)
5 minutes
self report questionnaire with 24 slider questions (0-100 points each) • 10 Guilt questions • 10 Craving questions • 4 Functional questions
24 slider questions (0-100 points):
• 10 Guilt questions => the mean score is the Guilt Score
• 10 Craving questions => the mean score is the Craving Score
• 4 Functional questions => the mean score is the Functional Score
can be edited under section EDITABLE PARAMETERS
File Name: attitudestowardschocolatequestionnaire_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant)
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| inquisit.version | Inquisit version number |
| computer.platform | Device platform: win | mac |ios | android |
| computer.touch | 0 = device has no touchscreen capabilities; 1 = device has touchscreen capabilities |
| computer.hasKeyboard | 0 = no external keyboard detected; 1 = external keyboard detected |
| startDate | Date the session was run |
| startTime | Time the session was run |
| subjectId | Participant ID |
| groupId | Group number |
| sessionId | Session number |
| elapsedTime | Session duration in ms |
| completed | 0 = Test was not completed 1 = Test was completed |
| dropdown.gender.response | The response to the gender question if response is 'other', the data are treated as "female" in this script for percentile rank determinations |
| craving | Craving Score = mean score of all 10 craving (C) questions (0-100) |
| cravingPercentile | The percentile of the Craving Score based on normative data published in Table 3, p. 516, in Benton et al (1998) and linear interpolation for the gender indicated (!default is female in this script!) for Males: the upper score reported is 81.4 (100%) - in this script: anything above 81.4 receives a rank of 100% |
| guilt | Guilt Score = mean score of all 10 guilt (G) questions (0-100) |
| guiltPercentile | The percentile of the Guilt Score based on normative data published in Table 3, p. 516, in Benton et al (1998) and linear interpolation for the gender indicated (!default is female in this script!) for Males: the upper score reported is 70.6 (100%) and for Females it is 79.5 (100%)- in this script: anything above these scores receives a rank of 100% |
| functional | Functional Score = mean score of all 4 functional (F) questions (0-100) |
| functionalPercentile | The percentile of the Functional Score based on normative data published in Table 3, p. 516, in Benton et al (1998) and linear interpolation for the gender indicated (!default is female in this script!) for Males: the upper score reported is 97.0 (100%) and for Females it is 99.7 (100%)- in this script: anything over these scores receives a rank of 100% |
File Name: attitudestowardschocolatequestionnaire.iqdat
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| date | Date the session was run |
| time | Time the session was run |
| subject | Participant ID |
| group | Group number |
| session | Session number |
| build | Inquisit version number |
| q*_response | Response given (in assigned values) Scale: 0 (not at all like me) - 100 (very much like me) 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) |
The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| pageInstructions | The instructions that appear at the top of each surveyPage |