Participants Needed: Research on Successful, Long-Lasting Polyamorous Relationships

Melody

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Study link: http://eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_7VW6j51aO43jVjL

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WHAT MOTIVATIONS AND BEHAVIOURS CONTRIBUTE TO SUCCESSFUL, LONGTERM POLYAMOROUS RELATIONSHIPS?

PARTICIPATION DETAILS:
If you choose to participate, you will be asked to answer questions about the current committed, long-term (5+ years) relationship(s) you are in. This includes questions about your sexual thoughts and behaviours as they contribute to the wellbeing of your close relationship(s) and personality-type questions. There will be opportunities to provide details about your relationship / family arrangement (e.g., any children, what age(s), split family, etc.). Finally, demographic information will be requested. At any point, you may choose to cease your participation in the study, or opt out of answering a particular question. NO personal identification information will be asked. Your participation is anonymous. The Behavioural Research Ethics Board at UBC–O has approved this study.

ELIGIBILITY:
Participants must be at least 20 years old, and currently be in at least one relationship that has lasted continuously for 5 years or longer. Individuals in monogamous or consensually non-monogamous relationships are equally eligible to participate. Polyamorists with multiple primary partners, within triads or quads, etc., or non-hierarchical arrangements are eligible to participate. The key aspect of eligibility for polyamorous participants is that at least one of your current relationships has lasted continuously for 5 years or longer.

LENGTH:
20 – 25 minutes

QUALTRICS WEBSURVEY SYSTEM:
Qualtrics is the online system used to collect data for this study. Response data are stored on servers located in the USA and subject to the Patriot Act, which allows authorities access to records of Internet service providers including IP addresses. If you choose to participate in this study, you understand that your responses will be stored and accessed in the USA. The security and privacy policy for Qualtrics can be found at the following link: http://www.qualtrics.com/security-statement/

Study link: http://eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_7VW6j51aO43jVjL


Primary Investigator: Dr. Jan Cioe

Co-Investigator: Melody Kaiser


https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1iO50NU0gnVQkRTTG1sNHZlVUU&authuser=0

Mirror: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d859ptfc7jnr4qa/Recruitment Ad.pdf?dl=1
 
Whew!

Okay, so I completed all of the study. The content was easy and straightforward, probably doable in about 20 minutes ... however, one of the pages of the survey was having some kind of technical issue and slowing my computer way, way down. I barely managed to get through that page (in fact I had to backtrack and do it twice). That one page alone probably took me at least an hour to get through. Yuck. Might be something to look into, as it might be a deterrent to people completing all of the study in the future.

Could be something on my end ... I'm just saying, that one page was painful (for the technical reasons I described above).

Certainly a valuable study, I hope I was of some small help.
 
It didn't take it long to load and process on my phone at all.
 
Heheh ... your phone rocks.
 
Liked the last question - about how honest we were when answering the questions. Some of them required me to extrapolate my response (for instance, if MrS were flirting with someone...which he is absolutely horrible at!) so I picked the answer that I would WANT to have. Don't know how that will skew the data, but I did the best I could.

No technical issues with the survey.

No personal info asked.
 
Right, it's definitely completely anonymous.
 
I took the quiz and thought the questions were great. It was insightful. I was sad that it didn't present me with some sort of profile at the end based on my answers.... us kids today, always wanting something. ;)

I almost sent the email requesting the summary once the data is compiled, but I have a healthy distaste for spam and an unhealthy belief that anyone who gets my email address will send me spam.
 
Oh man, I am sooo paranoid about protecting my email from spam. I have a few secondary addies (that I seldom check) that are spam-vulnerable, but my main email addy has been spam-free for six or seven years so far.

Hmmm, okay I'll stop hijacking the thread now.

Me and my old fogey PC with its old fogey Vista platform.
 
:D I know, I hate first world problems!
 
First, thank you so much to all those who have participated!

Second, I am the primary researcher for this study. So if you are able to trust me, please feel free to send me a private message with your email and I will add it to the list so that you receive the results of the study. I certainly have no interest or time to spam anyone :)

Third, I am so sorry to hear that a page of the questionnaire required you to fill it out multiple times and took you so long. This is the first time I've heard of the issue, but I will look into it by doing some QA from my end.
 
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Yeah, it sounds like everyone else got through it smoothly, but for some reason my clunky old computer choked up on that particular page. I don't know exactly how to identify which page it was, but I think it was the one with the most questions, and the most possible answers per question. If that helps.

Aside the technical issue I had, I thought it was a good survey, well done.
 
Thank you so much, it is always great to receive positive feedback! A lot of care and consideration went into the questions to make them as inclusive of various polyamory styles and arrangements :)
 
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