Mothers of students who just finished freshman year of college

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<p>Hello mothers,</p>

<p>I am a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. I am currently conducting a doctoral research project exploring the relationship between attachment security and the type, frequency, and content of communication between college freshmen and their mothers, with the goal of learning what has worked most effectively in terms of communication.</p>

<p>Currently, I am in the process of recruiting participants.</p>

<p>I am seeking participants who:</p>

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<li>Are the biological mother of a son/daughter who just completed their freshman year, their son/daughter lived away from home for the past year, and</li>
<li>Their son/daughter can also complete this study.</li>
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<p>Participation in this study will consist of an on-line survey of three separate questionnaires that should not take longer than 30 minutes to complete--all responses are anonymous as I am not asking for any identifying information from participants. </p>

<p>Participants can be directed to the links below to start the survey:</p>

<p>Mothers: <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HQSGFPW%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HQSGFPW&lt;/a>
College Students: <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HQQ8N5G%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HQQ8N5G&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I am asking for you to give this information to anyone who you think might be interested in participating in my study and who might meet the eligibility criteria.</p>

<p>I really appreciate your help! If you have any questions about the study, please contact me at: <a href="mailto:anne_robertson@mspp.edu">anne_robertson@mspp.edu</a>.</p>

<p>Anne Robertson, M.S.
Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology
Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology
<a href="mailto:anne_robertson@mspp.edu">anne_robertson@mspp.edu</a></p>

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<p>My just-finished-freshman-year daughter was adopted at birth. Has to be “biological??”</p>

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<p>i was just going to say that i think you limit yourself by excluding adoptive parents and their adoptees.</p>

<p>and why only mothers…?</p>

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<p>Because biological mothers is what the study focuses on. Jeez.</p>

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<p>okay mantori…LOL</p>

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<p>Because it’s a study on a specific group of people</p>

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<p>You are also getting an unscientific study group through CC. You are eliminating those whose children will never agree to doing the study because of their relationship with theior mother- only those with better communication with their parents would be willing to participate in a study their mother tells them about. </p>

<p>A better approach would be to recruit the students and then their mothers. Students who have issues with their mothers may want to vent or otherwise get their mothers to see things… Mothers with and without problems with their kids are more willing to help. I also think you will get a skewed population of participants as the less communicative, like my H and son, won’t want to bother with it.</p>

<p>Concept may be good but I would challenge your results/conclusions based on the inevitable study population bias. Unless the all mothers project already has been done you are best off including both biological and adoptive mothers and letting it be another study to differentiate between the two (or you could have this piece of data and see if it passes statistical analysis tests).</p>