Exploring Emotional Abusiveness in Current and Past Romantic Relationships |
Thank you for taking the time to consider being part of this research project, titled:
Emotionally-Abusive (EA) Individuals: An Exploration of Perspective, Remorse, Change and Reduction, in Romantic Relationships.
This survey is for participants who identify as having behaved in an emotionally-abusive manner within a romantic relationship. The Informed Consent information below is important. Please review so you can understand what you will be participating in if you choose to go ahead.
INTRODUCTION
This project is being conducted by Andrea Lee, a student at Royal Roads University in the Master’s of Interdisciplinary Studies and involves a confidential online survey that should take approximately 15-25 minutes to complete using any device connected to the Internet.
The survey explores the experience of people who have recently or in the past become aware that they have been emotionally-abusive in a primary romantic relationship. This relationship could be new and current, or it could a completed relationship in the past. Within the survey, you’ll be asked to answer questions based on what the term emotional abuse means to you.
PLEASE NOTE: If you do not feel you’ve been emotionally-abusive, thank you, there’s no need to participate. If you do feel you have been emotionally-abusive, or think you may have been, you are invited to answer the questions by describing your experience in your own words.
As a general concept, emotional abuse is recognized as a common issue within intimate relationships but the information we have about people who behave in emotionally-abusive ways is relatively scarce. The purpose of the study is to hear from people who are emotionally-abusive so that we can understand what can be done to reduce or stop their harmful behaviour. We think your experience can help with this understanding, lead to more resources being created and help shape the future of support for emotional abuse.
PARTICIPATION
Your participation in this survey is 100% voluntary. You can refuse to take part in the research or quit the survey at any time without penalty or consequences. You’re also free to decline to answer any specific questions.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND ANONYMITY
At the beginning of the survey, you will be asked for your gender preference, age, country of residence, education, employment and relationship status so that any patterns among survey participants can be studied. However, the survey does not ask for your name, email address, IP address or any other personally-identifiable information, so there will be no way to trace the responses back to you, and no one will ever know if you participate in the study unless you tell them.
INTRODUCTION
This project is being conducted by Andrea Lee, a student at Royal Roads University in the Master’s of Interdisciplinary Studies and involves a confidential online survey that should take approximately 15-25 minutes to complete using any device connected to the Internet.
The survey explores the experience of people who have recently or in the past become aware that they have been emotionally-abusive in a primary romantic relationship. This relationship could be new and current, or it could a completed relationship in the past. Within the survey, you’ll be asked to answer questions based on what the term emotional abuse means to you.
PLEASE NOTE: If you do not feel you’ve been emotionally-abusive, thank you, there’s no need to participate. If you do feel you have been emotionally-abusive, or think you may have been, you are invited to answer the questions by describing your experience in your own words.
As a general concept, emotional abuse is recognized as a common issue within intimate relationships but the information we have about people who behave in emotionally-abusive ways is relatively scarce. The purpose of the study is to hear from people who are emotionally-abusive so that we can understand what can be done to reduce or stop their harmful behaviour. We think your experience can help with this understanding, lead to more resources being created and help shape the future of support for emotional abuse.
PARTICIPATION
Your participation in this survey is 100% voluntary. You can refuse to take part in the research or quit the survey at any time without penalty or consequences. You’re also free to decline to answer any specific questions.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND ANONYMITY
At the beginning of the survey, you will be asked for your gender preference, age, country of residence, education, employment and relationship status so that any patterns among survey participants can be studied. However, the survey does not ask for your name, email address, IP address or any other personally-identifiable information, so there will be no way to trace the responses back to you, and no one will ever know if you participate in the study unless you tell them.
As a result of this, this study is considered confidential and anonymous in terms of any personally identifiable information such as your name or location.
Comments and opinions will be used in the thesis but at no point will any comments be attributable to any one respondent. As well, information will often be presented in aggregate form. I may also do conference presentations and writing over and above the thesis.
Once you submit your answers, they will be delivered to licensed version of SurveyMonkey where the data will be stored in a password-protected format online. At this point, your answers will be considered part of the study, combined with answers from other participants, integrated into the final research findings and published in an academic report.
Comments and opinions will be used in the thesis but at no point will any comments be attributable to any one respondent. As well, information will often be presented in aggregate form. I may also do conference presentations and writing over and above the thesis.
Once you submit your answers, they will be delivered to licensed version of SurveyMonkey where the data will be stored in a password-protected format online. At this point, your answers will be considered part of the study, combined with answers from other participants, integrated into the final research findings and published in an academic report.