37,425 responses from 2,495 respondents to 15 items.
One of 4 tables from the same source; this one measures Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale. The others are listed under Related tables.
| Description | Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale |
|---|---|
| Reference | Brotherton, R., French, C. C., & Pickering, A. D. (2013). Measuring belief in conspiracy theories: The generic conspiracist beliefs scale. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 279. |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00279 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Source data | https://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/ |
| Responses | 37,425 |
|---|---|
| Respondents | 2,495 |
| Items | 15 |
| Response categories | 6 |
| Responses per respondent | 15 |
| Responses per item | 2,495 |
| Density | 1 |
| Longitudinal | FALSE |
| age range | Adult (18+) |
|---|---|
| sample | Educational, Internet-based |
| construct type | Opinion/attitude |
| measurement tool | Survey/questionnaire |
| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
| primary language(s) | eng |
| construct name | Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale |
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
| Instrument | Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS), Brotherton, French & Pickering (2013); Open-Source Psychometrics Project online version |
|---|---|
| Mean words per item | 15.467 |
| Mean characters per item | 99.133 |
| Mean characters per response | 4.333 |
| Flesch-Kincaid grade level | 11.035 |
This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, gcbs_brotherton_2013.R. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.
| Column | What it is | Source column |
|---|---|---|
| IRW standard columns | ||
id | IRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task). | made in the build script |
item | IRW standard Item identifier. | made in the build script |
resp | IRW standard Response value. | made in the build script |
rt | IRW standard Response time. | made in the build script |
| Respondent covariates | ||
cov_age | Covariate | age |
cov_education | Covariate | education |
cov_engnat | Covariate | engnat |
cov_familysize | Covariate | familysize |
cov_gender | Covariate | gender |
cov_hand | Covariate | hand |
cov_major | Covariate | major |
cov_married | Covariate | married |
cov_orientation | Covariate | orientation |
cov_race | Covariate | race |
cov_religion | Covariate | religion |
cov_urban | Covariate | urban |
cov_voted | Covariate | voted |
What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.
Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("gcbs_brotherton_2013")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("gcbs_brotherton_2013")
@article{Brotherton_2013, title={Measuring Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale}, volume={4}, ISSN={1664-1078}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00279}, DOI={10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00279}, journal={Frontiers in Psychology}, publisher={Frontiers Media SA}, author={Brotherton, Robert and French, Christopher C. and Pickering, Alan D.}, year={2013} }
| IRW version | v566 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse v70.0 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/4qxs-pq87 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v70.0 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v43.0 |