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Preregistration: Testing the Usability of the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (PRP-QUANT) Template

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Spitzer, Lisa
Mueller, Stefanie
Bosnjak, Michael

Abstract / Description

Currently, no standard procedure is available for creating preregistrations. Thus, a task force, consisting of members of prominent psychological societies and institutions, was formed to create a consensus template for quantitative research in psychology, the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (PRP-QUANT) Template (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4463 ; Preregistration Task Force, 2020 ) . This new preregistration template will be tested with the usability study described in this preregistration. The descriptive insights into the usability of the template are the main objective for this study. Furthermore, the intention to use the template in the future will be tested by implementing the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology. Based on this theory, it is expected that the behavioral intention to use the template is influenced by performance expectancy (moderated by gender and age), effort expectancy (moderated by gender, age, and experience), and social influence (moderated by gender, age, experience, and voluntariness of use). Participants will be recruited by contacting members of the divisions of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the British Psychological Society (BPS). Furthermore, the study will be advertised on social media and via other psychology mailing lists. Only psychological researchers will be included. The study will be conducted as an online questionnaire. Participants will see the whole template and will be asked to give an overall evaluation. Furthermore, they will be requested to fill out a subset of template items and web probing questions, as well as a questionnaire measuring the variables of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology.

Keyword(s)

meta-research open science preregistration template usability

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PsychArchives acquisition timestamp

2021-01-15 10:44:53 UTC

Publisher

ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)

Citation

Spitzer, L., Mueller, S., & Bosnjak, M. (2021). Preregistration: Testing the Usability of the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (PRP-QUANT) Template. ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.4465
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    2021-03-01
    added coding scheme for template responses; added AP5 (Descriptive statistics); recruitment strategy was adjusted
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    2021-01-15
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Spitzer, Lisa
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Mueller, Stefanie
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Bosnjak, Michael
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2021-01-15T10:44:53Z
  • Made available on
    2021-01-15T10:44:53Z
  • Date of first publication
    2021-01-15
  • Abstract / Description
    Currently, no standard procedure is available for creating preregistrations. Thus, a task force, consisting of members of prominent psychological societies and institutions, was formed to create a consensus template for quantitative research in psychology, the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (PRP-QUANT) Template (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4463 ; Preregistration Task Force, 2020 ) . This new preregistration template will be tested with the usability study described in this preregistration. The descriptive insights into the usability of the template are the main objective for this study. Furthermore, the intention to use the template in the future will be tested by implementing the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology. Based on this theory, it is expected that the behavioral intention to use the template is influenced by performance expectancy (moderated by gender and age), effort expectancy (moderated by gender, age, and experience), and social influence (moderated by gender, age, experience, and voluntariness of use). Participants will be recruited by contacting members of the divisions of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the British Psychological Society (BPS). Furthermore, the study will be advertised on social media and via other psychology mailing lists. Only psychological researchers will be included. The study will be conducted as an online questionnaire. Participants will see the whole template and will be asked to give an overall evaluation. Furthermore, they will be requested to fill out a subset of template items and web probing questions, as well as a questionnaire measuring the variables of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology.
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  • Publication status
    other
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  • Review status
    unknown
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  • Citation
    Spitzer, L., Mueller, S., & Bosnjak, M. (2021). Preregistration: Testing the Usability of the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (PRP-QUANT) Template. ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.4465
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  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/4044
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4465
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)
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  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4466
  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4463
  • Keyword(s)
    meta-research
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  • Keyword(s)
    open science
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  • Keyword(s)
    preregistration
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  • Keyword(s)
    template
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  • Keyword(s)
    usability
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Preregistration: Testing the Usability of the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (PRP-QUANT) Template
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  • DRO type
    preregistration
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  • Leibniz institute name(s) / abbreviation(s)
    ZPID
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