___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *The Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS)* ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 02-02-2021 last updated: 03-29-2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 03-29-2023 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements The Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) Reference D.R. Hopko, R. Mahadevan, R.L. Bare, & Melassa K. Hunt. (2003). The Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS): Construction, Validity, and Reliability. Assessment, 10, 178-182. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9 5-point Likert scale questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. < 1 minute to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA OUTPUT DICTIONARY ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The fields in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'amas.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current groupsubjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumbersession id build: the Inquisit build q*_response: response given (in assigned values) Scale: 1 (low anxiety) to 5 (high anxiety) 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: 'amas_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) ***demographics (if run) textbox.age.response: radioButtons.gender.response: amasTotalScore: the AMAS total score (sum of all scores: q1-q9), range: 9-45 ***Norms (reported in: Hopko et al, 2003, p.180): z_female, p_female, z_male, p_male, z_overall, p_overall, ***factors: amasLMA: 'Learning Math Anxiety' (LMA), range: 5-25 (q1,3,6,7,8) amasMEA: 'Math Evaluation Anxiety' (MEA), range: 4-20 (q2,4,5,9) + individual scores scored on 5-point Likert Scale (1= low anxiety to 5 = high anxiety) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ provided by Millisecond Software - 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: