delilah, the princess of denial ([info]candiedangel) wrote in [info]psych_students,
2005-07-14 08:39:00
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undergraduate research

so, luckily i ended up at a university with an innovative faculty member. i'm currently working in a lab where i can work on whatever studies i want, and at the moment, i'm being encouraged to do one of my own come fall.

i've got a general idea of what i want to do. i'm still interested in the idea of homosexuality and hostility (re: the survey i posted a couple of weeks back), but i'm also really into suicidality and self-injury. i helped to develop a highly cohesive measure on self-injury this past spring and i would kill to use it. i found a thesis dissertation on suicidal behavior across sexual orientation and i think doing something like that would really kind of pull all of my interests together. i DO, however, want to do something fairly clinical. a friend mentioned maybe putting the surveys online and also doing one-on-one interviews, but i'm still pretty unclear. naturally, i thought to come to you guys.

given that, does anyone have any suggestions on a possible study?

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[info]candiedangel

July 14 2005, 13:27:46 UTC 6 years ago

yeah, the interview thing i wasn't so sure about. but, to be honest, i used to go to this heavy duty liberal arts school and they told me i couldn't do my undergraduate thesis on self-injury and now i'm out here in bufu being told to do whatever i want. weird, no?

[info]jeunesse

July 14 2005, 23:14:07 UTC 6 years ago

I don't have any ideas for you since I am struggling with my own but I wanted to tell you that I would have killed for that opportunity. I am starting to assist in a research lab for the first time in my senior year and if I had started earlier, it would have changed everything. I am falling in love with research and just wish I could have had more bio and stats background to go with my psych.

PS. I did have an idea of having homosexual men and straight men fill out a survey looking for agression. Homosexuality has been hinted at in a study to being linked to higher levels of testosterone during fetal development so it would be interesting to me, but that is just me thinking outloud.

[info]candiedangel

July 15 2005, 02:03:02 UTC 6 years ago

oh god, i feel like i've got enough stats to last me a lifetime. and the funny thing is, i haven't even begun. i don't want to think about the stats that i'll be doing in grad school.

i'm going to take my idea to next week's meeting and kick it around with the grad students to see what they think. hopefully they'll like it.

[info]casket4mytears

July 14 2005, 20:19:25 UTC 6 years ago

I'm not sure about a study suggestion, but I am interested in this SI measure, and how well validated it is etc.... I'm currently re-writing my book on self-injury and if there is a decent measure that's validated and whatnot, I'd love to cite it for completeness (which of course means you are fully credited), as well as pick your brain.

Drop me an email? iciclespark@yahoo.com

I don't know about your school, but I know in Canada anyway, a lot of profs will veto clinical studies that will result in any form of diagnostic conclusion at the undergrad level, because if you discover an illness etc, you are legally liable (and therefore so is the sponsor) to provide care for said disorder. It was the reason that during my undergrad thesis concerning eating disorders, I was not allowed to administer the complete EAT test - thus I couldn't "diagnose" anybody fully. Just a thought to keep in mind, especially if you want to bring in suicidality and self-injury.

[info]candiedangel

July 15 2005, 02:04:59 UTC 6 years ago

the measure is still in the early draft stages. we just got it to the point where it's being sent to the irb. also, it's not *MY* project, i just helped to set it up--i can ask the grad student about it though and let you know.

[info]candiedangel

July 15 2005, 02:05:21 UTC 6 years ago

also, hello fellow tori fan.

[info]casket4mytears

July 25 2005, 01:28:54 UTC 6 years ago

Cool! That would be wonderful - this book is looking to be sent to publishers for prelims around March 2006.....

And always nice to meet a Tori fan :) Are you hitting any shows at all??

[info]candiedangel

July 25 2005, 04:11:49 UTC 6 years ago

nope, can't afford it this go round. i saw her in atlanta in april, though. that was #8 for me. i almost died when i heard she was touring with imogen, but apparently not anymore, so i'm still breathing.
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