I am using Inquisit to administer some basic belief surveys and emotion questionnaires mainly because I am also administering an IAT and I want all of my measures to be in one file. I do not have access to Media Lab. The problem I am facing is that Inquisit does not seem set up to deal with these types of questions. I want participants to be able to see a list of 22 adjectives on a single page and be able to say to what extent they agree what that adjective. When I have tried doing this with sliders or radiobuttons, it places the answer choices below the item caption which doubles the amount of space taken up by a single item, making it near impossible to put more than 10 items on a page. Is there a way to format either the sliders or radiobuttons so that the answer choices appear next to the item caption? I am aware that one way to decrease space would be to include the scale in the instructions and have the answer choices merely be numbers. I have tried that. It causes there to be a huge space in between the instructions and the answers, which elongates the survey. Here is an example of a script I am currently working with:
<slider empath1>
/ caption = "Moved"
/ labels = ("Not at all", "To a very low degree", "Somewhat", "To a considerable degree", "Very much")
/ range = (1, 5)
/ slidersize = (60%, 3%)
/ showtooltips = false
</slider>
<slider empath2>
/ caption = "Warm"
/ labels = ("Not at all", "To a very low degree", "Somewhat", "To a considerable degree", "Very much")
/ range = (1, 5)
/ slidersize = (60%, 3%)
/ showtooltips = false
</slider>
<slider empath3>
/ caption = "Softhearted"
/ labels = ("Not at all", "To a very low degree", "Somewhat", "To a considerable degree", "Very much")
/ range = (1, 5)
/ slidersize = (60%, 3%)
/ showtooltips = false
</slider>
<slider empath4>
/ caption = "Tender"
/ labels = ("Not at all", "To a very low degree", "Somewhat", "To a considerable degree", "Very much")
/ range = (1, 5)
/ slidersize = (60%, 3%)
/ showtooltips = false
</slider>
<slider empath5>
/ caption = "Compassionate"
/ labels = ("Not at all", "To a very low degree", "Somewhat", "To a considerable degree", "Very much")
/ range = (1, 5)
/ slidersize = (60%, 3%)
/ showtooltips = false
</slider>
<slider empath6>
/ caption = "Sympathetic"
/ labels = ("Not at all", "To a very low degree", "Somewhat", "To a considerable degree", "Very much")
/ range = (1, 5)
/ slidersize = (60%, 3%)
/ showtooltips = false
</slider>
<slider empath7>
/ caption = "Touched"
/ labels = ("Not at all", "To a very low degree", "Somewhat", "To a considerable degree", "Very much")
/ range = (1, 5)
/ slidersize = (60%, 3%)
/ showtooltips = false
</slider>
<slider empath8>
/ caption = "Concerned"
/ labels = ("Not at all", "To a very low degree", "Somewhat", "To a considerable degree", "Very much")
/ range = (1, 5)
/ slidersize = (60%, 3%)
/ showtooltips = false
</slider>
<surveypage feeltherm1>
/ caption = "To what degree do you feel the following emotions at this time?"
/ fontstyle = ("Verdana", -16, true, false, false, false, 5, 0)
/ questions = [1-8 = noreplace(empath1, empath2, empath3, empath4, empath5, empath6, empath7, empath8)]
</surveypage>
<survey feeltherm>
/ pages = [1= noreplace(feeltherm1)]
/ responsefontstyle = ("Verdana", -11, false, false, false, false, 5, 0)
/ itemfontstyle = ("Verdana", -12, true, false, false, false, 5, 0)
/ itemspacing = 0.5%
/ showpagenumbers = false
</survey>