Second chance to participate in parental narcissism survey!

Posted on May 23, 2015 by luckyotter

To all ACONs:

I emailed Valerie Berenice Coles, Ph.D candidate from The University of Georgia to find out when the results of the survey about parental narcissism I posted about back in the winter would be published. I received this reply:

Hi Lauren,

Thank you so much for you email! I promise I have not forgotten about the report. After concluding the first study we received so many request from individuals that missed the study that we opened another study for those who missed the first one and are including those responses in the report (which WILL be sent out this summer). If you happen to have any readers who did not participate in the first study but are interested in getting involved (there is only 1 $100 gift card this time), the link is: https://ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8cDgGItIiXqe3B3

This study will be up through June. If you have any other questions, please let me know!

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
http://comm.uga.edu/people/individuals/155

So, for any ACONs who did not have a chance to participate in the first survey, which ended on February 28th, here is another chance to help out and possibly win a $100 gift card too.

The survey will only take about 15 minutes of your time but those 15 minutes will be invaluable in helping to find out more about this very important topic.

As I did the last time, I will be posting a link to the survey in the sidebar.
Again, here is the link to the second survey:
https://ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8cDgGItIiXqe3B3

Also, as soon as the results are available from the first study, I’ll be posting them here.

Important news for everyone who participated in Parental Narcissism Survey

Posted on March 13, 2015 by luckyotter

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

UPDATE! Research study on parental narcissism needs participants!

Posted on February 18, 2015 by luckyotter

Valerie Berenice Coles, one of the researchers doing this study, updated me about its status.

She says they have received a wonderful response so far. Anyone interested in receiving a summary of their results can email her at the end of the survey.

Ms. Coles asked me to repost the original article I wrote because they still need more responses to the survey. (There is also an icon you can click at the top of the sidebar.)

****Data is being collected until Saturday, February 28th.****

Here is the link to take the survey:
https://ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpUcPJ3CkaLjOPb
It will take only about 15-20 minutes of your time and you may be eligible to win a $100 gift card.

Please help! Thank you so much.
–Lauren

Lucky Otters Haven

IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY FOR ACONS/POSSIBLE CASH PRIZE!

Dr. Jennifer Monahan and Ph.D Candidate Valerie Berenice Coles of The University of Georgia’s Department of Communication Studies is conducting a survey about parental narcissism. All ACONs (Adult Children of Narcissists) are eligible to participate in the survey.

If you participate, you will partake in questionnaire that asks about your parent’s communication style and some items that measure personality characteristics of your parent or legal guardian that they identify as a narcissist and themselves. The aim is to examine how parental communication impacts individuals once they become adults. There is presently no published scale that measures parental narcissism behaviors from the perspective of the adult child, and very little research in general.

Anyone over the age of 18 who identifies as an ACON is eligible for this study, it does not matter where you live in the world, your gender, or whether English is…

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