Attitudes Towards Chocolate Questionnaire

Technical Manual

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

Background

This script implements the Attitudes towards Chocolate Questionnaire (Benton et al, 1998).

References

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)

Duration

5 minutes

Description

self report questionnaire with 24 slider questions (0-100 points each) • 10 Guilt questions • 10 Craving questions • 4 Functional questions

Procedure

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

Norms
normative data published in Benton et al (1998), p.516 (table 3);
based on N = 330 (Females: N=226; Males: N=104),
with
Craving:
Female: Mean = 46.8 (SD = 21.8); Male: Mean = 29.5 (SD = 19.4)
Guilt:
Female: Mean = 44.6 (SD = 21.8); Male: Mean = 21.2 (SD = 15.5)
Functional:
Female: Mean = 16.1 (SD = 7.3); Male: Mean = 15.6 (SD = 7.9)

percentiles reported in this script are based on the reported percentile categories and the process of linear interpolation

Instructions

can be edited under section EDITABLE PARAMETERS

Summary Data

File Name: attitudestowardschocolatequestionnaire_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant)

Data Fields

NameDescription
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%

Raw Data

File Name: attitudestowardschocolatequestionnaire.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
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)

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
pageInstructions The instructions that appear at the top of each surveyPage