What Do You Think

Abstract: The What Do You Think stories (WYT) were first administered in Year 5. To date, the instrument has been administered to cohorts 1 and 2 in year 5, and cohort 1 in year 6. The interviewer reads a series of six stories to the respondent and follows each story with a series of questions. The first three stories involve a problematic peer situation. The last three stories depict problematic situations involving an interaction with an adult authority figure. Each question (except the free response) are coded on a five point scale (1=yes, definitely; 2= yes, probably; 3=maybe yes, maybe no; 4= no, probably; 5=no, definitely not). As part of the computation process, the scale points are reversed for all scores such that higher scores indicate more anger, sadness, hostile attributions, etc. Initially, 21 scores are created. The scores represent the answers to each question collapsed across the six stories. In addition, for the free responses, scores are created indexing the proportion of answers scored into each or the 8 categories. Scores were computed for all subjects with data from 3 or more stories. Five second order scores are created by combining two or more of the first order scores. The second order scores were computed for the subjects having valid scores for both of the first order variables: The five second order variables are appropriate for most analyses (assuming the hostile/benign dimension is acceptable). Although the higher order variables are not more reliable than the first order measures, the first order variables my suffer more from floor and ceiling effects. Only two of the proportion scores have acceptable psychometric properties (aggression and assertive/competent). The other response categories appeared very infrequently. Note that all variables are collapsed across peer and adult situations. Exploratory analyses indicated that this was an acceptable approach that did not dramatically alter the psychometric properties of the variables. However, additional scores my be computed using only the adult, or only the peer stories.

Who Completed this Measure?: select one

Cohort 1 - Administrative History

• Year 05 | grade 4 | age 10
• Year 06 | grade 5 | age 11

Cohort 2 - Administrative History

• Year 05 | grade 4 | age 10
• Year 06 | grade 5 | age 11

Cohort 3 - Administrative History

• Year 05 | grade 4 | age 10
• Year 06 | grade 5 | age 11

Technical Reports:

• Year 5
• Year 6

Raw Dataset Name: CyK, CyL

Scored Dataset Name: WYTySCc

Keywords:
Aggression, Attribution, Conflict Resolution, Peer Relationships, Police Contact, Punishment, Self Control, Social Skills, Teacher Authority

Is this Measure Available for Public Use?: Yes

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Measure Items and Scales:

COHORT Cohort TCID Study ID Number C6KA1A A - Hostile Attribution C6KA1B A - Benign Attribution C6KA2A A - Feel Angry C6KA2B A - Feel Sad C6KA3A A - Retribution Goal C6KA3B A - Problem Resolution Goal C6KA3C A - Problem Avoidance Goal C6KA4 A - Response C6KA5A1 A - Enact Benign Response C6KA5A2 A - Benign Response Effectiveness C6KA5A3 A - Effect on Peers of Benign Response C6KA5B1 A - Enact Hostile Response C6KA5B2 A - Hostile Response Effectiveness C6KA5B3 A - Effect on Peers of Hostile Response C6KB1A B - Benign Attribution C6KB1B B - Hostile Attribution C6KB2A B - Feel Angry C6KB2B B - Feel Sad C6KB3A B - Problem Resolution Goal C6KB3B B - Problem Avoidance Goal C6KB3C B - Retribution Goal C6KB4 B - Response C6KB5A1 B - Enact Hostile Response C6KB5A2 B - Hostile Response Effectiveness C6KB5A3 B - Effect on Peers of Hostile Response C6KB5B1 B - Enact Benign Response C6KB5B2 B - Benign Response Effectiveness C6KB5B3 B - Effect on Peers of Benign Response C6KC1A C - Benign Attribution C6KC1B C - Hostile Attribution C6KC2A C - Feel Sad C6KC2B C - Feel Angry C6KC3A C - Problem Avoidance Goal C6KC3B C - Retribution Goal C6KC3C C - Problem Resolution Goal C6KC4 C - Response C6KC5A1 C - Enact Benign Response C6KC5A2 C - Benign Response Effectiveness C6KC5A3 C - Effect on Peers of Benign Response C6KC5B1 C - Enact  Hostile Response C6KC5B2 C - Hostile Response Effectiveness C6KC5B3 C - Effect on Peers of Benign Response SITE Study Site C6LD1A D - Benign Attribution C6LD1B D - Hostile Attribution C6LD2A D - Feel Sad C6LD2B D - Feel Angry C6LD3A D - Retribution Goal C6LD3B D - Problem Avoidance Goal C6LD3C D - Problem Resolution Goal C6LD4 D - Response C6LD5A1 D - Enact Benign Response C6LD5A2 D - Benign Response Effectiveness C6LD5A3 D - Effect on Peers of Benign Response C6LD5B1 D - Enact Hostile Response C6LD5B2 D - Hostile Response Effectiveness C6LD5B3 D - Effect on Peers of Hostile Response C6LE1A E - Hostile Attribution C6LE1B E - Benign Attribution C6LE2A E - Feel Angry C6LE2B E - Feel Sad C6LE3A E - Problem Avoidance Goal C6LE3B E - Retribution Goal C6LE3C E - Problem Resolution Goal C6LE4 E - Response C6LE5A1 E - Enact Hostile Response C6LE5A2 E - Hostile Response Effectiveness C6LE5A3 E - Effect on Peers of Hostile Response C6LE5B1 E - Enact Benign Response C6LE5B2 E - Benign Response Effectiveness C6LE5B3 E - Effect on Peers of Benign Response C6LF1A F - Benign Attribution C6LF1B F - Hostile Attribution C6LF2A F - Feel Angry C6LF2B F - Feel Sad C6LF3A F - Problem Resolution Goal C6LF3B F - Problem Avoidance Goal C6LF3C F - Retribution Goal C6LF4 F - Response C6LF5A1 F - Enact Benign Response C6LF5A2 F - Benign Response Effectiveness C6LF5A3 F - Effect on Peers of Benign Response C6LF5B1 F - Enact  Hostile Response C6LF5B2 F - Hostile Response Effectiveness C6LF5B3 F - Effect on Peers of Benign Response wyt6rpu Y6 aggressive/punishment responses wyt6bat Y6 benign attributions wyt6hat Y6 hostile attributions wyt6agy Y6 feel angry wyt6sad Y6 feel sad wyt6ret Y6 retribution goals wyt6res Y6 problem resolution goals wyt6avd Y6 problem avoidance goals wyt6bct Y6 enact benign responses wyt6bef Y6 effectiveness benging responses wyt6bps Y6 effect on peers benign responses wyt6hct Y6 enact hostile responses wyt6hef Y6 effectiveness hostile responses wyt6hps Y6 effect on peers hostile responses wyt6pag Y6 aggressive responses wyt6pac Y6 assertive/competent responses wyt6pap Y6 authority-punish responses wyt6pai Y6 authority-intervene responses wyt6ppa Y6 passive/avoidant responses wyt6psc Y6 self-control responses wyt6pot Y6 other responses wyt6pir Y6 irrelevant/unable responses wyt6ena Y6 hostile enact-benign enact wyt6eff Y6 hostile effect-benign effect wyt6eop Y6 hostile eff peers-benign eff peers wyt6att Y6 hostile attrib-benign attrib