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Hi,

Thank you so much to all those who have taken part already, keep 'em coming!! If anyone is interested in receiving a summary of findings please drop me an email on [email protected].
To those who found the link didn't work. In short I'm not sure why that happened! It must have been surveymonkey.com closing down for maintenance for a bit perhaps. Anyway feel free to give the link another try, it should work!

Thanks again!

Marianne

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Hi,

I'm carrying out psychology research at Nottingham Trent University looking at how people’s childhood experiences shape their personality. In particular I am interested in how these experiences affect the likelihood of developing, or not developing personality disorder symptoms. In the past, people have focused on negative experiences such as childhood maltreatment. My research is aiming to look wider than this and find out what role both negative AND positive childhood experiences play in personality. I am hoping the research will raise awareness of how essential it is to provide a nurturing childhood environment and the importance of supporting children and families who may need it.

To do this, I need your help! We are looking for anyone over the age of 18 to answer our online questionnaire, regardless or what kind of early experiences you had.
This is the first stage of my project and you may find it does not reflect exactly your personal experience as it is a quantitative questionnaire, however please answer as best you can.
It should only take 20 minutes and to thank you for taking part, you can enter into a raffle prize draw to win £50/£30/£20 vouchers for any shop or supermarket of your choice.
I'm short of participants and I'm due to finish data collection in early July so eek!

If you are interested in finding out more about the research and to take part in the questionnaire please follow the link below:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/ntumc

Thank you for your time and help! It is really appreciated! I hope it's ok that I posted this on two boards, I apologise in advance if it's not ok, I just figured I'd open it to masters students as well.

Marianne Chua

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Hi,

Thank you to those who have taken part already! Please please please keep 'em coming until early July! It means a lot to me!

Marianne

Hi,

I think it's fine to use an incentive, it's pretty common call in psychology. Usually people don't mind taking part but the incentive gives them the push over the edge! If your material is sensitive/may cause distress, just make sure the incentive you offer isn't overwhelmingly large so they feel inclined to carry on through being upset. Also put in loads of warning signs along the way in the info sheet and consent form that your research may be upsetting and remind them they have the right to withdraw.
In terms of whether it affects the type of people that participate, it might do, but that can be said about those who accept/decline without an incentive. To be honest, if anything you might get a wider spread, without an incentive the only people that will do it will have a certain personality (helpful/maybe in academia themselves). Whereas money unites us all! Haha. People who wouldn't normally do research will take part.

Hi,

I'm carrying out psychology research at Nottingham Trent University looking at how people’s childhood experiences shape their personality. In particular I am interested in how these experiences affect the likelihood of developing, or not developing personality disorder symptoms. In the past, people have focused on negative experiences such as childhood maltreatment. My research is aiming to look wider than this and find out what role both negative AND positive childhood experiences play in personality. I am hoping the research will raise awareness of how essential it is to provide a nurturing childhood environment and the importance of supporting children and families who may need it.

To do this, I need your help! We are looking for anyone over the age of 18 to answer our online questionnaire, regardless or what kind of early experiences you had.
This is the first stage of my project and you may find it does not reflect exactly your personal experience as it is a quantitative questionnaire, however please answer as best you can.
It should only take 20 minutes and to thank you for taking part, you can enter into a raffle prize draw to win £50/£30/£20 vouchers for any shop or supermarket of your choice.
I'm short of participants and I'm due to finish data collection in early July so eek!

If you are interested in finding out more about the research and to take part in the questionnaire please follow the link below:

www.surveymonkey.com/ntumc

Thank you for your time and help! It is really appreciated!

Marianne Chua