I may have already posted about this, but I just got a new email from Valerie Coles of the University of Georgia and she has added some additional information that may interest some of you.
I emailed her back and asked her to please send me the results when they’re tabulated. I asked her if I could post them here (because I know a lot of you have expressed interest), or if I need to wait until the study gets published first. I would love to be able to post the results here!
As I get more information, I’ll definitely keep everyone informed, as much as I’m allowed.
Here is Valerie’s email to me:
Hi, Lauren,
Below is the thank you/follow-up email I previously sent you. If you are willing, please post this or some version of this thank you on your site, so that our participants also are aware of our extreme gratitude. The message below is the same with the exception of the updated country count – people helped out from 32 different countries!! Additionally, we have received a number of emails from individuals who missed the survey the first time around. We did close data collection on February 27th. However, we will have a smaller study soon available to those who did not participate the first time. Anyone interested may email me at vcoles@uga.edu. The link for the large study that you helped us with has been discontinued. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALL OF YOUR AID!
First, thank you for your help in featuring, distributing, and/or participating in our study! We are truly amazed and humbled at how many ACONs took our survey. We had 978 respondents from at least 32 countries, 16 websites that we personally contacted participate, and then many more websites that you and your readers, our respondents, forwarded the survey to. Never in our wildest imagination did we think that so many ACONs would step up and help us out. We are examining our findings over the next six weeks and when we have a summary of the results then. As I mentioned in previous emails, I will be sending this summary out to all the known websites that participated as well as to any individuals who requested a summary.
Meanwhile, we did the drawing today for the ten $100 gift cards. Anyone who entered their email address at the end of the survey was eligible for the drawing. There were 711 emails in the drawing! The ten winners were contacted today via email to get their full name/address so we can mail the gift cards to them. At the start of the study we had agreed not to publicize their names (as ACONs may not want narcissistic family members to know that they are part of an ACON site) but, of course, if one of the winners is part of your site, we hope that person will let the rest of the group know s/he was a recipient.
Again, we truly appreciate your help and we hope through this study that we can create a short useful questionnaire for people to use to help identify narcissistic parents. The success of this study would not have been possible without you.
I look forward to emailing you again in several weeks with the summary. Thank you again!
Best,
Valerie
Valerie Berenice Coles, MA
PhD Student, Research Project Manager
Graduate Assistant to Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Student Ambassadors Program
University of Georgia
Department of Communication Studies
Caldwell Hall
vcoles@uga.edu
http://comm.uga.edu/people/view/valerie-coles
Lucky Otters Haven 
It was great to see so many people involved in this study. I try to notice how many people were being tested and am continually surprised by the small numbers. 60 people took a test and researchers wrote an entire book on the results? I’m sure Coles and Monahan were shocked at the large numbers of people identifying as ACoNs.
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Yes, and they asked a number of admins of blogs about narcissism to post the survey too. I don’t know how many people took it on my site, but I’m sure the numbers are good when you combine all the sites that were running the link, including this one.
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