AttitudesExpulsion {ShinyItemAnalysis}

Attitudes towards the Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans (dataset)

Description

Dataset from Kolek et al. (2021) study investigating a video game's effects on implicit and explicit attitudes towards depicted historical events in the short- and long-term. As an intervention tool, a serious game Czechoslovakia 38–89: Borderlands was utilized that deals with the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from the former Czechoslovakia after the WWII. Data consists responses from 145 adults from two groups (experimental and control group) on number of multi-item measurements.

Usage

AttitudesExpulsion

Format

A data.frame with 145 rows and 239 variables:

ID

anonymous identifier

Group

C = control or E = experimental group

Gender

factor, male or female

GenderF

integer, 1 = female

Merkel

effect of Merkel speech between the posttest and the delayed posttest, range 0–5, where 0 stands for no effect, 5 for very significant effect

Sudety

factor, N = not originally from Czech Borderlands; Y = originally from Czech Borderlands

Education

factor, V = university; S = high school; Z = elementary school

Education123

integer, same as above, but coded as 3= university; 2= high school; 1= elementary school, meaning higher the number, higher the education

*PANASpn

total PANAS score of positive and negative affect scales

*PANASp

total PANAS score of positive affect scale

*PANASn

total PANAS score of negative affect scale

*Macro

Macro attitude measurement

*Micro

Micro attitude measurement

*IATeffect

Single-Category Implicit association test score

Items beginning with an asterisk have following prefixes in the actual dataset:

pre

pretest

post

immediate posttest

del

one month delayed posttest

Post_Pre

difference between posttest_pretest

Del_Post

difference between delayed posttest and posttest

Source

Kolek, L., Šisler, V., Martinková, P., & Brom, C. (2021). Can video games change attitudes towards history? Results from a laboratory experiment measuring short- and long-term effects. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1–22. doi:10.1111/jcal.12575