Decisional Forgiveness Scale - DFS

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Created: January 09, 2016

Last Modified: January 25, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements the Decisional Forgiveness Scale (DFS) as described in:

Worthington et al (2012):“Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness: Conceptualization and Development of Self- Report Measures.” (unpublished manusscript)

This instrument can be found on page 39 of “Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness: Conceptualization and Development of Self- Report Measures.” Available online at: https://www.evworthington-forgiveness.com/assessment-scales/

Duration

2 minutes

Overview

8 5-point Likert Scale.
2 Subscales:
1. Inhibition of Harmful Intentions
2. Prosocial Intentions

Instructions

see section Editable Parameters (instructions are original to Worthington et al, 2012)

Scoring

8 5-point Likert Scale.
2 Subscales:
1. Inhibition of Harmful Intentions (questions: 1*, 4*, 6*, 8); the lower the score, the fewer harmful intentions are inhibited
2. Prosocial Intentions (questions: 2*, 3, 5, 7*); the lower the score, the fewer intentions are prosocial

• reversed scored questions

Summary Data

File Name: dfs_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
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
ihi Inhibition of Harmful Intention Subscale score (items reversed scored where appropriate) (Range:4-20)
psi Prosocial Intention Subscale score (items reversed scored where appropriate) (Range: 4-20 )
total Total score (range: 8-40)

Raw Data

File Name: dfs.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject, group, session With the current subject/groupnumber/session id
build Inquisit version number
q*_response Response given (in assigned values)
Scale: 1 (stronglye disagree) - 5 (strongly agree)
R = automatically 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 default instructions used