help me out?

Hello!

I’d love your help completing this survey for my masters dissertation.

I’m a postgraduate student, MSc Applied Clinical Psychology Program.

I’m conducting a research study for my dissertation about substance use and factors that maintain it. Specifically I’m researching three factors; self esteem, reward sensitivity, and learned helplessness. I’m also researching to see if self-esteem will mediate the relationships between learned helplessness, reward sensitivity, and addiction.

If you have experience with using substances or addiction (except nicotine), please take the time to fill out my survey, it should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. If you are currently in enrolled in a recovery program, diagnosed with substance-abuse disorder, or in rehabilitation please do not take part in this study.

Please note that participation is voluntary, anonymous, and requires proficient english reading skills. To take part, please click the link below which will take you to my survey, you can withdraw at any point during the survey.

Thank you for your participation!

https://uclan.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_elI9cwnEdNtTtc2

PS: I know this is a very formal message and it may raise questions if this is authentic research or not. This survey is for my dissertation and due to deadlines and resources, sourcing participants online is my best chance at getting an idea of the relationship between my factors and addiction. I do plan to formally conduct research using better participant sourcing in the future. But for now, this is the best that I can do. I personally don’t have an addiction, but I’ve witnessed many loved ones in and out of it. This is largely where my passion in addiction psychology starts.

That being said, please put yourself first. This study has four scales asking about your levels of self-esteem, the frequency intensity and duration of your cravings, your sensitivity to natural reward, and your perception of learned helplessness.

If you feel like you could be triggered answering any of these scales please do not take the survey as discussing addiction may induce cravings. Other than that, If you’re consenting to your information and feel like what’s being discussed won’t cause you any harm, I’d appreciate you taking 10min to fill the survey.