Dear Website Administrator,
My name is Patrick O'Connor and I am a psychology undergraduate at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I am working as a Research Assistant with Dr. Aidan Feeney, who is the Director of Education at the school of psychology.
We are carrying out research on the psychological effects of debt. Already we have surveyed a large sample of people with problem debts and now, in order to help us to understand the patterns observed in that sample, we need to survey a group of people who do not have problem debts. Our research focuses on the importance of emotions in the experience of debt, and one of its aims is to help debt advisors gain a better understanding of the emotional impact of debt upon their clients.
The survey in which we are inviting people to participate in has three parts. First, they will be asked to answer a short set of questions about their background. Second, they will be asked to think about how they would feel in a number of imaginary scenarios. In the third section we will ask them some questions about how they have felt recently. We estimate that completing the survey will take no more than 15 minutes of their time. It is important that you know that all information is collected anonymously: because we don’t ask participants to provide their name, they cannot be identified by your answers. People’s responses to the survey will only be seen by staff working on the project at Queen’s University Belfast. Should you have any queries about the research, please contact Dr. Aidan Feeney at the School of Psychology by email at a.feeney at qub.ac.uk
Note that because we are not collecting information about people’s identity we will not be able to remove their data from the survey. Please also note that ethical approval for this study has been granted by the School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast.
I am writing to you as we would be extremely grateful if you could allow us permission to post a link to our questionnaire in the discussion forum section of your website. We are looking to recruit a large sample of people and any help you can give us would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Patrick
My name is Patrick O'Connor and I am a psychology undergraduate at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I am working as a Research Assistant with Dr. Aidan Feeney, who is the Director of Education at the school of psychology.
We are carrying out research on the psychological effects of debt. Already we have surveyed a large sample of people with problem debts and now, in order to help us to understand the patterns observed in that sample, we need to survey a group of people who do not have problem debts. Our research focuses on the importance of emotions in the experience of debt, and one of its aims is to help debt advisors gain a better understanding of the emotional impact of debt upon their clients.
The survey in which we are inviting people to participate in has three parts. First, they will be asked to answer a short set of questions about their background. Second, they will be asked to think about how they would feel in a number of imaginary scenarios. In the third section we will ask them some questions about how they have felt recently. We estimate that completing the survey will take no more than 15 minutes of their time. It is important that you know that all information is collected anonymously: because we don’t ask participants to provide their name, they cannot be identified by your answers. People’s responses to the survey will only be seen by staff working on the project at Queen’s University Belfast. Should you have any queries about the research, please contact Dr. Aidan Feeney at the School of Psychology by email at a.feeney at qub.ac.uk
Note that because we are not collecting information about people’s identity we will not be able to remove their data from the survey. Please also note that ethical approval for this study has been granted by the School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast.
I am writing to you as we would be extremely grateful if you could allow us permission to post a link to our questionnaire in the discussion forum section of your website. We are looking to recruit a large sample of people and any help you can give us would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Patrick