List of Threatening Experiences Questionnaire - LTE

Technical Manual

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

Created: January 27, 2018

Last Modified: January 07, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements the The List of Threatening Experiences (LTE) Questionnaire as described in:

Brugha TS, Cragg D (1990). The List of Threatening Experiences: the reliability and validity of a brief life events questionnaire. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 82, 77–81.

Duration

1 minute

Overview

12 yes-no questions regarding major life events

Instructions

see section Editable Parameters

Summary Data

File Name: lte_q_summary_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
lteScore Number of affirmed life events
+ individual responses

Raw Data

File Name: lte_q_survey.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: 0 (negative for threatening life event) - 1 (positive for threatening life event)
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 instructions that appear at the top of each surveyPage