Skip to questionnaires

[jdill]

I'm setting up an experiment in which I ask participants which of five automatic thoughts they find most distressing (they choose one). Based on what response they make, I want a corresponding questionnaire to be displayed, but I've run into a snag. When I add the five questionnaires to the experiment file I have to indicate the position number in which it will be displayed. My first thought was to assign all of the questionnaires the same position number and use the response.xls file to differentiate and select the appropriate questionnaire to present using conditional logic =IF(B14=1, "questionnaire1.que", IF(B14=2, "questionnaire2.que)). However,this doesn't work. All the questionnaires are presented opposed to just the one that is necessary based on the response given. I'm certainly not computer savy so any help in either writing better logic, or trying this from a different approach would be greatly appreciated.

[jarvis24]

You could have each response to your test item skip to the first question in the appropriate questionnaire (e.g., a simple instruction item named ques1, ques2, ques3, etc.) Then, at the end of the experiment, you could add a single item questionnaire. You could have the last item in each of the other questionnaires skip to THAT item when they are done. That way your participants see only one of the five questionnaires. The others are all skipped over. Does that make sense?

[jdill]

I thought that I had a pretty good understanding of what you meant, but I'm still having problems. As I mentioned, when I prompt for a participant to select the "most distressing thought," I want to have a set of instructions for a cognitive restructuring exercise to be displayed. Instead of having different questionnaire files for each of the responses, I made a single questionnaire file and tried to make it to where, based on the response given, the experiment skipped to the corresponding set of instructions within that single questionnaire file, when done with that particular set of instructions, the experiment is set to skip to the debriefing file. I named the instructions slides b1-b22, but I'm running into the same type of problem that I was having before. I'm having trouble getting the computer to pull up the right set of instructions based on the response given (all of the responses take me to b1, instead of skipping to another subset of instructions within the questionnaire file-I'm not sure if that makes sense...) In other words, no matter what response I choose within the experiment, the cognitive restructuring instructions for the thought "I am a bad person" pops up; the one that I named b1- it should skip down to b12 and start a different set of instructions from there. This is especially confusing considering the fact that I'm having no problem having the experiment skip to the debriefing statement when the instructions are done. I've tried different variations in Excel's logic, because I thought that I might have the spacing off, or something to that effect, but nothing's worked. I tried naming the instructions for each restructuring exercise with a different first letter as well (b1, for "bad person", s1 for a restructuring exercise dealing with thoughts of selfishness). I'm running out of ideas, and I'm behind on this work. I'm not sure what else to do.
Thanks for your help.

[jarvis24]

Can you zip and post your exp and que files?

[jdill]

Here's the zip file with my entire experiment in it.
The que file called control is fine, the one called actint.que has the slide with the responses that should create the skips, I want the responses here to bring up specific items in the questbad.que file; response 1 should skip to b1, and response 2 should skip to s12 within that file. At the end of each of those sets of slides, I want the program to skip to a debrief form (I just called this db) and not show any other sets of instructions from the questbad file. The questself file is an extra file. There are five possible responses, but I only set up two sets of cognitive restructoring, because I was trying to figure out how to get this programming done.
Thanks for your help.

[jdill]

I was actually talking to my supervisor, and he noted that if I ask the question "which of these statements did you find most distressing" I could get a different answer than what they actually rated as most distressing. Is there a way to take the highest rated comment and have that skip to the correlating cognitive restructuring exercises, that way I don't have to include the last slide? Sorry about the confusion.
Thanks