Stressed out as the parent of toddler? Please consider sharing your experiences in this survey.

[JackPeltz]

Hello,

I appreciate your interest in this post.  As the parent of a 1 and 4 year old as well as a therapist, I know how difficult it is to parent when one is experiencing depression.  As a graduate student researcher at the University of Rochester in upstate NY, I am also interested in how parental depression influences parenting and family functioning over time.

In that light, I am hoping that some of you might be willing to take my survey (thereby helping me to understand how a wide range of families navigate this stage). The details of the study are below as well as a link to the online survey. Please feel free to reply with any questions you have about the study, and thanks in advance for your interest in participating.

I greatly appreciate your time and support!

Jack Peltz

IF...

• You are living with a romantic partner
• You and your partner are both at least 18 years old
• You think your partner might also be willing to complete an online survey
• You have a 2 or 3 year old child that lives in your home at least half the week

I would appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete this online survey.

The Family Dynamics Survey :

1. Is voluntary
2. Can be completed online
3. Is SHORT (takes 20-25 minutes)
4. Involves you and your partner both participating (at separate times)
5. Will offer you feedback on your relationship.
   • 5 empirically validated dimensions of relationship functioning
6. Includes optional follow up surveys
   • Brief surveys (10-15 min)
   • Occurring 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 months after the initial survey
   • Chance to win $100 for each follow up assessment completed!

Thank you for your time and support!

Jack Peltz, M.A.
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
University of Rochester

CLICK HERE IF INTERESTED: http://edu.surveygizmo.com/s3/526237/family-dynamics?source=mothering

[kayleesmom]

just wanted to send some hugs.

[JackPeltz]

Hi everyone,

while we are very interested in understanding how depression affects parenting, we would greatly appreciate any parents of toddlers who are experiencing any level of stress (and not just depression).  Our hope is to better understand how such stress influences family functioning over time.  Thanks again for your interest in this work, and we hope that you'll participate.

Jack

[JackPeltz]

I have been receiving questions about whether or not it is appropriate to send the study link to others.  YES, it is definitely helpful and greatly appreciated when you forward the link to others.  We are trying to recruit as many participants as possible to learn about the widest possible range of parents, so the more who complete the survey, the better.

Thank you!

Jack Peltz

[JackPeltz]

Hi everyone,

Yes, we will be recruiting until the end of the year, so if your child is not quite 2 years old yet, that is totally fine.  As long as he or she is 2 before the end of the year, we'd love your participation.  Conversely, if you are reading the post and your child turned 4 within the past 3 months, then you can also participate.  Thank you for the questions.

Jack

[p.s]

Hi:

I just completed the survey and would like to comment that the conclusions in graph bar form were COMPLETELY OFF, i.e stating that I get little emotional support from my relationship... when I in fact get ALOT of emotional support from my husband, etc.  Only 1 of the bar graphs was correct.  Maybe I completed the survey incorrectly.  Anyways, the only reason I filled this out was b/c I am hoping to get something, lol.  So what is it that participants get, besides the $100 lottery which is not at all a motivational factor for me.

Thanks!

[McGucks]

OP--did you get permission to post this on MDC?  Not trying to be unpleasant, just checking.

[JackPeltz]

Thank you for the response.  I am sorry that you did not feel the feedback was helpful.  The measures have been validated and we have tried to address the feedback accordingly.  For instance, some respondents have not needed a lot of emotional support lately, so while it looks like their partner does not provide enough, the opposite is actually true.  We hope that respondents will appreciate the time to think about their families, and in general, respondents have appreciated the feedback.  In addition, with each follow-up survey, you get another chance to win the 100 dollars.  I would love to offer more, but as the study is my dissertation, I cannot afford to.  In any case, I really appreciate your participation and hope that you and your partner will continue to participate over the next year with the short follow-up survey.  Thanks again for your participation.  I really appreciate it.

Jack

[JackPeltz]

Hi, yes, the survey was approved by my University's Research Review Board and has been approved to be on websites like MDC. 

[katelove]

Originally Posted by JackPeltz 

Hi, yes, the survey was approved by my University's Research Review Board and has been approved to be on websites like MDC. 

I think Caedenmomma was actually asking if you had sought and received permission from the administrators of MDC to recruit via the forum.

[CassnBeth]

Depending on the answer to caedenmomma's question, could someone please ask the admins about these posts? I would do it myself but I haven't the faintest notion how.