Research Study - Personality Traits & Relationship Satisfaction in Male Cave Divers

There is still time to participate. This is a follow-up from post made on 1/9/2012 here on the CDF. I know how busy we all are but I could really use your help.

Doctoral Online Research Study investigating the relationship between personality traits and relationship satisfaction 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.

This survey is completely anonymous and no IP addresses are collected by this researcher.

Participation is entirely voluntary and can be withdrawn at any time.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 bill@oigarden.com or william.oigarden@mymail.barry.edu, 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 you for your time and interest in this study, which is partial fulfillment of a Ph.D. degree in Counseling I am pursuing. Bill Oigarden

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Originally Posted by Bill Oigarden

There is still time to participate. This is a follow-up from post made on 1/9/2012 here on the CDF. I know how busy we all are but I could really use your help.

Doctoral Online Research Study investigating the relationship between personality traits and relationship satisfaction 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.

This survey is completely anonymous and no IP addresses are collected by this researcher.

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 bill@oigarden.com or william.oigarden@mymail.barry.edu, 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 you for your time and interest in this study, which is partial fulfillment of a Ph.D. degree in Counseling I am pursuing. Bill Oigarden

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Were you by chance involved with and hurt by a male cave diver?

too funny

Done. But it made me angry, and I am not sure why. :)

One question not inclded in the survey is whether or not the subject's spouse/significant other is also a cave diver. I can imagine this potentially having a big effect on relationship satisfaction.

Tracy and I never argue about what we're going to do on vacation, or about the money that gets spent on cave diving trips, equipment, etc. If I was married to a non-diver, or even a warm water/shallow reef/pretty fish diver, this might not be the case.

Mike

Just got done with the test. It reveals that I have no personality.

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Originally Posted by gschaut

Just got done with the test. It reveals that I have no personality.

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You're an engineer, right? Are you supposed to have one? :)

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Originally Posted by MORGAN

You're an engineer, right? Are you supposed to have one? :)

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When I went to work for CBS, they confiscated my personality, soul, dreams, hopes, aspirations, and a pound of flesh. But I still get to keep my sense of humor...

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Originally Posted by gschaut

...I still get to keep my sense of humor...

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That's all you really need!

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Originally Posted by MORGAN

One question not included in the survey is whether or not the subject's spouse/significant other is also a cave diver. I can imagine this potentially having a big effect on relationship satisfaction.

Tracy and I never argue about what we're going to do on vacation, or about the money that gets spent on cave diving trips, equipment, etc. If I was married to a non-diver, or even a warm water/shallow reef/pretty fish diver, this might not be the case.

Mike

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Thanks for participating Mike. You bring up a great question to ask. I can add your comments in Chapter 5 – Further Research. Thank you sir.

Also, if the rest of the members please continue to consider participating that would be great. The larger the number the better results we get. Feedback from those who have completed the survey suggest it only takes about 15-20 minutes.

I am grateful for everyone who has completed the survey and everyone who is still considering being part of the project. There is still time to join in.
To participate go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5YPNLKZ

For those of you who don't know-- Bill was editor of the CDS's magazine for a while, put tremendous effort forth with www.cavedivinghistory.com, assisted with the production of the Cave Diving Articles and Opionions book, has helped at several workdays as well as other things, I'm sure.

This survey hardly took any time at all, it's not much to ask.

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Originally Posted by jj1987

For those of you who don't know-- Bill was editor of the CDS's magazine for a while...

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It took me about 15 minutes to complete.

After three pages I thought this was headed to a sex questionnaire.

I'm way too private to just give confidential info out to strangers and on the internet.

Anyone else uncomfortable giving out this information?

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Originally Posted by Puttzer

Anyone else uncomfortable giving out this information?

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I didn't have any problems.

Your individual answers are confidential, and cannot be traced back to you. Like a voting machine, all that gets reported are the totals from each column.

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Originally Posted by Puttzer

After three pages I thought this was headed to a sex questionnaire.

I'm way too private to just give confidential info out to strangers and on the internet.

Anyone else uncomfortable giving out this information?

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You didn't give your name, and IP addresses cannot be traced to their individual owner very easily without a search warrant to the internet provider or access to server logs on a site you logged into (look for a match), especially not if you're using a public IP (coffee shop, office location, etc).

Bill is hardly a stranger.

If you're still unconfortable and think the PhD canidate thing is made up to get private data, use archive.org and you can see he was listed as a PhD canidate Feb 1, 2011
http://web.archive.org/web/201102011.../oigarden.com/

I would gladly take the survey and trust Bill with the answers. He's one of the good guys.

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Originally Posted by sskasser

I would gladly take the survey and trust Bill with the answers. He's one of the good guys.

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Aww, go ahead and take it, get all of the ladies to, the machine is just like a party in San Fransisco, can't tell if you have boy parts or girl parts.

wow, it took me almost 15min to find out what this is study is really about!

I didn´t even know that words like "dyadic" and "alexithymia" exist in the German vocabulary, but after I read on wikipedia, that it often occurs in people who are without a partner, without religious affiliation, unemployed and of low socioeconomic status I realized that they were talking about me.
So of course I will take part and I encourage everybody to do so as well. I know Bill and I´m sure those data are safe!

Besides it is an honor to help him to get his Ph.D. degree!

When do I get the certificate to submit to HR?

Moderately personal. Interested in the outcome.

Bill, you should get your PhD the way I did - at the local hardware and farm supply store. I have two of them - they are hanging up in the barn, and whenever I need to dig a post hole I go and get one of them.

Good advice. When I first started Forrest reminded me the key was perseverance. He is correct. The response to the survey have been terrific These is still time to participate. Should have results ready by the NSS-CDS workshop. Bill

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Originally Posted by MORGAN

whenever I need to dig a post hole I go and get one of them.

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I thought a PhD was a Pentecostal Hair Do.

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Originally Posted by Slüdge

I thought a PhD was a Pentecostal Hair Do.

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Piled Higher and Deeper

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Originally Posted by Slüdge

I thought a PhD was a Pentecostal Hair Do.

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Now you're scaring me! Is that like TV preacher hair or Donald Trump hair?

TV preacher.