Hi,
I'm a research psychologist. One of the things I study is personality.
Together with a student of mine, I am doing a project on a questionnaire called the Oxford Capacity Test. This is the questionnaire that Scientologists use to recruit people to their Church, and to measure their alleged progress towards mental health.
Amazingly, for an oft-administered scale, it hasn't been scientifically validated in the way that questionnaires normally are, even by curious external parties. So I want to see what happens when you try to do this.
Basically, I want to systematically analyze whether the items on the questionnaire hang together in the way that is claimed, and whether the clusters of items that emerge correlate sensibly with scores from already validated questionnaires.
So, I looking for people to fill out the questionnanire. One of the reasons is that it contains 200 items, requiring more than a few minutes to complete.
Given this, here are two incentives:
First. you will be entered into a free draw for £30. Just email psychosurvey@hotmail.co.uk anonymously. No link to your results is made (which leaves the system open to abuse; but I am trusting you! Even you engine users!).
Second, you will get feedback from the proper (and shorter) questionnaires I use about your personality. This will be delivered, once the results are complete, by having you go online, and type into an automated feedback program the same anonymous password you inputted before filling out the questionnanire. You'll get some comparative statistics, and some verbal explanation.
Of course, psychological science will also the beneficiary here, in case altruism is your thing!
There are two links to access. Both are on this page:
http://www.psychology.soton.ac.uk/psychosurvey/
Scroll down and click, in order:
Discover your Personality! Part 1
Discover your Personality! Part 2
Any questions? Email: psychosurvey@hotmail.co.uk
Thanks a lot! I'll provide details on my findings at RHP at all events. Maybe you can even ask a friend if they would like to take part too.
Aiden
Originally posted by PawnokeyholeInteresting timing - today there was a big headline in a Norwegian newspaper about the daughter of a politician taking her own life after she had done that test.
Hi,
I'm a research psychologist. One of the things I study is personality.
Together with a student of mine, I am doing a project on a questionnaire called the Oxford Capacity Test. This is the questionnaire that Scientologists use to recruit people to their Church, and to measure their alleged progress towards mental health.
Amazingly, for an ...[text shortened]... at all events. Maybe you can even ask a friend if they would like to take part too.
Aiden
Originally posted by PawnokeyholeWhen I see a car accident, I have to stop and help, beacuse I know I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP!!!
Hi,
I'm a research psychologist. One of the things I study is personality.
Together with a student of mine, I am doing a project on a questionnaire called the Oxford Capacity Test. This is the questionnaire that Scientologists use to recruit people to their Church, and to measure their alleged progress towards mental health.
Amazingly, for an ...[text shortened]... at all events. Maybe you can even ask a friend if they would like to take part too.
Aiden
Originally posted by NordlysI doubt the test itself was sufficient cause of that tragic event.
Interesting timing - today there was a big headline in a Norwegian newspaper about the daughter of a politician taking her own life after she had done that test.
Perhaps a frightful and false interpretation of the test's results, foisted upon her by the misguided, was.
My research aims at clarifying whether the test is up to scratch for measuring anything; whether its factor structure is as it is claimed to be; and examining how its items relate to established measures of personality.
Originally posted by PawnokeyholeI thought Scientology didn't believe in psychiatry?
Hi,
I'm a research psychologist. One of the things I study is personality.
Together with a student of mine, I am doing a project on a questionnaire called the Oxford Capacity Test. This is the questionnaire that Scientologists use to recruit people to their Church, and to measure their alleged progress towards mental health.
Amazingly, for an at all events. Maybe you can even ask a friend if they would like to take part too.
Aiden
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/16/scientology_blamed_in_high-profile_suicide/7148/
Originally posted by Bosse de NageI'm sorry: I still don't know quite what you mean (e.g., "...going to do the beneficiary..."😉. Could you elaborate?
"Of course, psychological science will also [...] the beneficiary here, in case altruism is your thing!"
It's what you're going to do the beneficiary that concerns me.
I am conscious of having more than one thread with same title in different forums, so let's wind up here and continue in Spirituality.
Thanks to everyone who's taken part so far.
Originally posted by Mark AdkinsIt doesn't. Nor do I believe in Scientology.
I thought Scientology didn't believe in psychiatry?
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/16/scientology_blamed_in_high-profile_suicide/7148/
The story implies that it was the unfavorable feedback provided by the OCA that triggered the girl's suicide. That's what can happen when the deluded provide the vulnerable with the unsubstantiated.
