Researchers at Colorado State University in Pueblo are conducting a study on emotional intelligence and CNM. If you are interested in participating, read more below.
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I am part of a research team at Colorado State University-Pueblo that is conducting research about monogamous and various forms of non-monogamous relationships. We feel that the mononormative society we live in often has hostile views of polyamory (and other types of non-monogamy), often based on misinformation and misunderstandings. In an effort to help defeat some of the common misconceptions regarding consensually non-monogamous relationships, we are currently investigating the role of emotional intelligence/competence in relationships. We have developed a short survey asking a few demographic questions as well as a series of questions about how the respondent processes emotions. This survey will help us to determine if there are any differences between the role of emotional intelligence in monogamous and consensually non-monogamous relationships. The survey can be accessed online at https://forms.gle/bF7yBgvG6rokFMuEA .
I’m writing to ask if you would consider distributing our survey via any of your social media platforms and/or email. This was designed as a very large-scale research project, but our ability to recruit participants has been significantly hampered due to the current pandemic and resulting social distancing, sheltering in place, quarantining, etc. We can’t go to social gathering sites to distribute participant recruitment materials, because there are no social gatherings. We can’t place posters with recruitment information at the locations we intended, because most of them aren’t open to the public and there aren’t many people out-and-about, anyway. We had hoped to gather participants in person throughout Colorado (where we live) AND participants nation-wide (and even internationally) online, but it appears we’ll be restricted to almost entirely online solicitation of participants. In any study, it’s important to get as many participants as possible representing as wide of a range of the population as possible, so since we are only able to recruit via the internet, it is especially important that we try to reach out to as many potential participant sources as possible to ensure this diversity of data.
Very truly yours,
Frances F. Martin
frances Martin
ff.martin@pack.csupueblo.edu
(719) 320-0828