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Spygirl | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 01:04 pm     Hey TVCHers!! Many of you may know that I am a graduate student in Marriage and Family Therapy. For a conference coming up at the end of October, two of my classmates and myself are conducting a study on Teenagers and the Parents of Teenagers and their Internet usage. This is a survey study we are conducting entirely on the Internet and so I am inviting anyone who qualifies to participate. Parents: You must have one or more children living with you at least part time who is 13-19 years of age. Teens: You must be 13-19 years of age. Because the survey may take anywhere from 15-45 minutes once you actually begin, we are offering a chance at winning prizes for those who take their time to participate. All completed surveys will go into a drawing for gift certificates from Amazon.com. First Prize: $100 (one), Second Prize: $50 (one), Third Prize: $10 (five). The drawing is to be held in mid November. If you are interested, you can go to our website at www.netcomresearch.com to get more information on the study and to complete the survey. For those wanting to participate, you must complete an electronic "consent to participate" which requires a good email address. Once you submit that to us, you will receive an email with a link directly to the survey you are completing (i.e. Parent vs. Teen). If anyone has any questions, you can email me at netcomresearch@aol.com. Thank you very much!
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Twiggyish | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 01:46 pm     Dang, mine is too young!! I'd love to do it otherwise. |
Spygirl | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 02:22 pm     P.S. If you have any co-workers, family members, friends, etc., who would qualify, please pass them the link to our site! Thanks  |
Cjr | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 02:36 pm     Hi Spygirl, my son is 15 and we fight for computer time LOL so I figure we'll do this. I signed up and when he gets home from school I'll have him sign up. |
Wargod | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 02:42 pm     Well dang, Spy, even if I added my kids ages together they wouldn't qualify, but if I add Reily in there they would. Sorry, it really sounds like it would be an interesting survey! |
Spygirl | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 02:46 pm     Thanks guys!!!!!! Maybe we'll do one for the parents of younger kids next time  |
Cjr | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 03:08 pm     Very interesting survey. It didn't really take that long. Made me really question our quality family time though. Might have to make a few changes. |
Mamaanja | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 06:10 pm     Good for you Spygirl! I have a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy. Are you working on a Masters or Doctorate? |
Spygirl | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 06:37 pm     Thanks Cjr!!! I hope your son will complete the survey as well! Mamaanja, I'm on the doctorate now wondering why the Spain I thought that was a good idea. LOL! I'll hopefully walk the stage in May. I've gotten all my coursework done, working on my internship right now, proposed my dissertation, and am working on beginning the study this week. Look for a similar thread to this one about my dissertation study  |
Secretsmile | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 07:45 am     Spygirl, I have 3 teenagers, ages 16,17,19. I think I'd be a good person to do a survey for you but the website doesn't show up when we have tried the buttons. Let me know if ya need us. Liz |
Rissa | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 07:53 am     Spygirl, won't work for me either. I can get the main page but when I click on the Parents button, I get "HTTP/1.1 New Application Failed". |
Spygirl | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 09:32 am     Secret, can you type www.netcomresearch.com into your browser and see what happens? Are you having trouble with just the main page or the links as well? Rissa, I'm forwarding this on to my webmaster to see what she can do. I hope to have this fixed soon. Just out of curiosity, what browsers are you guys using so I can tell her? Thanks for your patience!!!! |
Micknrc | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 10:38 am     I can't get in at all, Spy. And I have a 13 yr old and an almost 15 yr old, so I'd be happy to do it! I'm on IE |
Spygirl | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 12:15 pm     Alrighty....we're gonna work on it tonight! We can't have this not-working stuff Thanks for letting me know guys! |
Spygirl | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 02:57 pm     Okay guys -- it seems that the server had a glitch today. Can you guys pretty please give it another try? |
Spygirl | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 07:29 am     *Bump* Everything seems to be working now! Thanks for those who are already volunteering  |
Rissa | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 09:16 am     Spygirl, just finished {such stress, LOL}. A couple of the questions I probably should have asked you to clarify before submitting, but they should be fine: 1) Income - I am Cdn. This one turned out not to matter because it would have been the same choice even if I had converted to American. But should others be converting? 2) Education - I put a college degree but it was actually University which wasn't an option. In Canada there is University and College and Univ. is generally considered to have more value. But I think our University's are on par with what you call a college, so again it shouldn't matter. Good questions, makes you think. |
Spygirl | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 04:33 pm     Thanks for the feedback, Rissa!! I have to shamefully admit that being waaaaaaaaaaaaay down here in the south, I have forgotten about our Canadian friends more than once. This is a good lesson to learn when doing Internet research, however, which is to include a country option, including a money choice drop down following the amount. If possible, we'll make the changes to this one, but I'm not sure since the study is already underway. We'll have to consult before deciding to change in mid-stream. My apologies. Thanks again, Rissa! |
Myjohnhenry | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 04:46 pm     Spy...please email me. I have some questions/comments for you and didn't know if you are the only one who reads the email at the address above. Email addy I use for here is in the profile (don't know if you have my other and I don't post it here).
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Spygirl | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 05:17 pm     I'll email ya, girl! And yeah, I'm the only one of the team who is reading the emails at this point |
Spygirl | Thursday, October 03, 2002 - 09:00 pm     Bump -- anyone interested in money?  |
Spygirl | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 03:56 pm     Bump! |
Draheid | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 05:23 pm     Spygirl: I sent the link to a journaller friend of mine via her mailing list. She and many of her readers are 'in the category' for your survey and I received confirmation that she received and appreciated it so hopefully she'll pass it along too.  |
Spygirl | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 05:43 pm     Thanks so much, Draheid!!!!!!!  |
Spygirl | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 03:57 pm     Just wanted to bump this to the top and invite those out there with Teens to complete the survey. After a minor setback with one of the databases this morning, everything is now moving forward. I appreciate all those who are participating and who are spreading the word. In a few more days (hopefully), I will have my dissertation website up! Yay!!! |
Teatime | Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 06:54 pm     Spy, I just completed your (quick and painless) survey, as the parent of a teen. My question is this: My kid does a survey also, right? She will just follow the link from your e-mail and click on the teen key? I didn't want to enter twice and mess up results. Thanks. Great questions you came up with. |
Draheid | Friday, October 25, 2002 - 08:04 am     Spygirl: I'm curious as to the outcome of this effort. Is it over yet? If so, how did it go?? (If not, how is it going??) Anything statistically interesting you can share??? Just curious! |
Spygirl | Monday, October 28, 2002 - 06:13 pm     Hey Drah Sorry I didn't see this sooner. I presented on this topic at the conference this weekend, but the study is ongoing. We are going to continue collecting data until we have a large sample, then we'll write it all up. I will definitely share my results here when we are done, but that may be a few more months. The drawing is coming up in a few weeks, so anyone wanting to get in on it now, please visit the website. We have a small sample right now (under 100), so the chances of winning one of the gift certificates are EXCELLENT!!!!!! |
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