Coping and Adjustment
Taisha Jones, M.S., a 5th year clinical psychology graduate student at Saint Louis University, is inviting you to participate in this research study that is being conducted online, under the direction of Dr. Honore Hughes, Research Chairperson/Advisor at Saint Louis University.
The title of this study is Coping Strategies and Adjustment. The purpose of this study is to examine various ways in which people use individual coping strategies, including non-religious and religious ways, to facilitate overall life satisfaction and adjustment.
Your participation in this study is confidential and will involve completing a series of brief questionnaires to assess coping and problem-solving strategies. Participation will entail completing brief surveys and a demographic questionnaire that are available online at http:www.surveymonkey.com. There are no right or wrong answers in the surveys, so please be as honest as possible in responding to the individual items. Please be sure to respond to all survey items. Your participation will require at least 10 minutes of your time, but likely no longer than 30 minutes. In appreciation of your time, a monetary donation of $5 will be donated to a charity that you will specify at the end of the study as your preference to receive the donation.
The results of this study may be published in scientific research journals or presented at professional conferences. However, your name and identity will not be revealed and your record will remain anonymous. To protect your anonymity, no identifying information will be collected.
Participation in this study does not have a direct benefit to participants. While it is hopeful that you may gain insight from participation, it is not a guarantee. Participants may increase their knowledge of individual coping skills and problem-solving strategies. This might allow participants to become aware of various coping strategies and gain a better understanding of what strategies might be available. However, participation may benefit others as a small monetary donation will be made to a charitable/service organization that group members may select (e.g., Habitat for Humanity).
The risks to you as a participant are minimal. These risks may include mild boredom and/or discomfort with responding to sensitive items that probe for religiousness and/or lack of religiousness, as well as psychological adjustment.
They requested that I post this:
Hello to all,
I am writing to request your participation in my dissertation study “Coping and Adjustment.” In exchange for your participation, I will be donating $5 to a charitable organization of your choice. The choices are included at the end of the study. The study examines various ways in which people cope with stressors (including religious and non-religious ways) and how these relate to one’s happiness and life satisfaction. Additional information including final results can be obtained after the study. Thus far, participation has included individuals with religious/faith-based beliefs and those without such beliefs. My goal is to obtain representation from several individuals and groups that include varying ages, gender, religious affliations, social abilities, intellectual abilities, and so forth. Please consider participating in the study and please forward this to everyone that you think may wish to contribute by participating. Please remember, your participation is voluntary and that the study completion time is not expected to exceed 30min. Study completion time has been around 10-30 minutes.
You can access the study at the following link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=wp5LFvjXAooMReVkqxwaaw_3d_3d.
For any additional questions or information, please see webpage or contact the researcher at copingandadjustment@gmail.com or copingandadjustment@yahoo.com.
Hey Hugh,
Sounds like an interesting study. I’m game. My daughter said she was also interested, she’s 31. Just send me an e-mail and tell me how the study will be conducted.
your friend forrest
Sorry, just saw the study link above. Will check it out. Forget about the e-mail, forrest
@forrest noble
I took it… pretty interesting. Many of the questions are very polarizing based on how they are asked and your particular degree of belief. I hope they get enough good responses to allow meaningful interpretation of their data. Non-believers will be easy to separate from the pack so they should end up with two distinct data sets in a way.
Yeah Hugh,
On your suggestion, I took the test too. It seemed to me that its theme was something like how religious beliefs effect personality.
I wasn’t particularly impressed by how the test was written (not implying that I could have done better). They could have been more subtle about their religious inquiry. Still it was fun answering no to almost every religious question they asked. I’m not one of those that believes that religion today does more harm than good. I’m sort of neutral on this idea.
Today, in my opinion, fundamentalist religions around the world stifle scientific and social progress as well as in some cases human rights. In the last 1,500 years it’s mostly had a negative effect on humanity.
Still there are “no-strings-attached” charity work that are done by many religions which I financially support from time to time.
take care, forrest
@forrest noble
Same here… I work with a charity that is not religious, but “gives thanks to god” for all the great things they are able to do. Ironically, we work tirelessly to correct the “mistakes” that god made in the first place. It’s really rewarding work, but I wish more people understood the heart that drives volunteer and charity work in the non-believer. It’s nice to know that I am doing this for my fellow man and not because god expects it or with the expectation of some eternal reward.