Oigarden Doctoral Online Research Study

Would you like to participate in a FREE research study investigating the relationship between personality traits and relationship satisfaction in male cave divers?

A doctoral research study is being conducted by WILLIAM B. OIGARDEN, MA, LMHC, NCC a doctoral candidate at Barry University in the Adrian Dominican School of Education, investigating the relationship between dyadic adjustment, personality traits, and alexithymia in male cave divers.

To participate go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5YPNLKZ

Study Requirements - Complete a demographic survey (5 minutes) and three scales that measure dyadic adjustment (10 minutes), personality traits (15 minutes), and alexithymia (5 minutes). You would need to allow approximately 35 minutes to complete the entire survey.

Eligibility Requirements – You must be a male cave diver18 years of age or older and married or in a committed relationship. There is also a category for those who consider themselves in a separated relationship status.

After thoroughly reviewing and reading the Informed Consent screen, you will have two options. Should you choose to participate or choose not to participate in this voluntary study, your anonymity will be secure at all times. You also have the option to discontinue the study at any time. Once you have selected the “I agree” then the next button: you will be presented with a demographics questionnaire. Once this is completed, you will move into the rest of the online anonymous questionnaire (no IP addresses are collected by this researcher).

This is a research study and is not considered a therapeutic session. This study is free to all participants. Participation is entirely voluntary and can be withdrawn at any time. Since this is an exploratory study and gender differences in activities similar to cave diving were found during the literature review this study will be limited to male cave divers. Future studies planned will include female cave divers.

If you should have any questions or need more information please contact me, William B. Oigarden at (386) 984-9348 or by email william.oigarden@mymail.barry.edu or bill@oigarden.com , my supervisor, Dr. Catharina Eeltink at (321) 235-8401, or by email at keeltink@mail.barry.edu , or the Institutional Review Board point of contact, Barbara Cook at (305) 899-3020, or by email at bcook@mail.barry.edu .

Thank for your time and interest in this study, which is partial fulfillment of a Ph.D. degree in Counseling I am pursuing. Bill Oigarden

Not enough time tonight, but I'll be on there tomorrow!

Yup, me too.

Done, hope that helps. Didnt take long at all......

Just finished.

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Done -let me know if I pass.

Hey Bill...didn't Millidge Murphy do a study like this back in the 80's?

I would like to know why "2" is an acceptable answer, and "twice" isn't :-D

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Originally Posted by phreaticus

Hey Bill...didn't Millidge Murphy do a study like this back in the 80's?

I am pretty sure Bill said he had looked at that study. Bill's study is more about relationships, and personality traits, than actually cave diving.

Done. Looking forward to seeing the results.

Thanks to those who have replied. Steve & Forrest are both correct. I spoke with Prof. Murphey a while back. He and Prof. Millott researched cave divers 70's thru mid 90's. Like Forrest mentioned my study is quite different. The good news is that Milledge reports he and Millott are in their 70's and doing great!

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