Dear Participant,

Thank you for your interest.  If you want to participate in the research, please read the statement and then click the link to go to the questionnaire.  Please note that only individuals over the age of 18 may participate.

This study is being conducted by a PhD student (Wendy Nicholls) at Loughborough University, supervised by Dr. Duncan Cramer

I am conducting a study to look at the connections between depression and relationships.  The study takes place at two time intervals and involves completing 7 short questionnaires (which should take no more than fifteen minutes) on each occasion.  I will invite you to complete a second questionnaire in about three months time, can you please send me a blank email with so that I can make a record of email address.  This will not be connected to your response in any way.

Please click here to send the blank email

This study involves answering questions about your relationship with your parents or guardians as a child, your adult relationships, and your mood.  You will also be asked for a few details, such as your age, sex, and status.  If there are some questions you do not wish to answer, for any reason,  you may leave them out.

 All information to be used in this study is strictly confidential, you will not be identifiable from your response.

To reduce the risk of anyone seeing your responses you can exit the internet browser after you have sent your response.  Some questions are quite personal, so you might want to complete the questionnaire in private.  You are asked your mother's maiden name and your day of birth in order to match your responses at the two time intervals.  You will not be identifiable to me by giving this information.  Should you not wish to participate for whatever reason, feel free to withdraw at any stage, by clicking the 'reset' button.  If you have any questions or wish to drop out of study after you have submitted your answers, please do so before June 2004, you can email me at W.Nicholls@lboro.ac.uk.

Wendy Nicholls

Go to The Questionnaire (by clicking this you are agreeing that you have read the above information, and that you are over the age of 18).