Barriers to data sharing in music psychology

Author

Tuomas Eerola

This repository contains the survey data concerning barriers to data sharing in music psychology. The survey replicates the work by Houtkoop, Chambers, Macleod, Bishop, Nichols, and Wagenmaker (2018), who surveyed why scholars (psychologists) may not want to share the data.

Last run: 28/10/2025

Read data

fn <- "data/Barriers29092025.csv"
fn <- "data/Barriers26102025.csv"
Data <- read_custom_qualtrics(filename = fn, format = "labels")
[1] "Number of participants in the data: 131"
[1] "Number of participants after filtering incomplete/previews: 107"
source('scr/rename_variables.R')

Descriptives

source('scr/describe_data.R')

N = 107

Age (M) = 44.21

Age (SD) = 10.42

Gender: 49.53% females

Years active (M) = 15.98 SD = 9.42

Years active by career stage
careerstage M SD
PhD Student 4.85 1.86
Post Doc 10.00 5.48
Assistant Professor 10.73 4.56
Associate Professor / Reader 18.94 6.39
Professor 24.36 10.28
Other 13.38 6.85 
print(fig_careerstage)

print(fig_shared)

Main barriers

source('scr/figure_main.R')

Desirability of sharing?

print(g2)

print(g3)

Share in future and benefits of sharing?

source('scr/figure_supporting.R')

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