Different questions concerning questionares

Nora

I am trying to create a questionare for a project at university and got a few questions.

First is if there is a possibility to combine open and multiple choice questions. So for example, I am asking participants whether they are studying and if they do so, they are supposed to type in their subject. So I would like to either combine these two steps into one, so you click "yes" and directly type in your subject behind it or to implement some sort of run if statements. So only if you click "yes" on a certain item the next item is displayed.
Is there any possibility to do that?

My second question concerns rating scales. I would like to include the BDI in my questionare. So far I used multiple choice items to do so, but by doing so I can only specify response alternatives but can not combine this with the rating scale implemented in the BDI. What I would need OpenSesame to do is to assign points to the response items and to sum up these points about all questions so I get a global scale value at the end.
How can I do that?

Thank you so much for your help!

sebastiaan

Hi Nora,

So only if you click "yes" on a certain item the next item is displayed. Is there any possibility to do that?

Yes, with a short inline_script. Say that your variable is response, and you want to re-execute the form (my_form_item) until this variable has the value 'yes'. Then you could do this by inserting the following into the run phase of an inline_script immediately following my_form_item.

while var.response != 'yes':
    items.execute('my_form_item')

What I would need OpenSesame to do is to assign points to the response items and to sum up these points about all questions so I get a global scale value at the end.

You would need to create a custom form with rating_scale widgets on it:

• http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.1/manual/forms/widgets/rating_scale/

It's not clear to me whether you want to get a summed score during the experiment or not. If no, then you don't need to do anything special, and you can just calculate the summed score afterwards based on all the ratings. If yes, then you (again) need a short script. But in that case, the first step is still to implement the form, and once you've done that (and if needed) I can help you with the script!

Cheers,
Sebastiaan

Nora

Thank you for your help!
I will have a try with it and would would get back to you if it does not work.