Signal boosting
Friday, August 16th, 2013 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feel_the_windThis study, which is done by "professionals/academics"... they need more participation to do better analysis... so take it if you haven't!
We are a group of researchers and founder members of the Therianthropy Research Group. We are interested in understanding therianthropy and researching it using a non-judgemental perspective. Recently some of the members conducted a study to find out about the identity of therians. One of the things that this highlighted was that the participants appeared to be psychologically well, which contradicts the psychiatric literature that suggest that therianthropy is a mental illness. We highlight this in our study but to be able to make this claim further research is required. This current study aims to address the issue of psychological and social functioning in the therian community. The scales used are measures of psychological wellbeing, social functioning, and mental health. Of course it may be that therians do score higher on some aspects that have traditionally been defined as mental ill health. However, our approach is not to diagnose or label but instead to understand why therians may score highly in certain areas in the context of their therianthropic experiences. Our approach is to normalise not pathologise experience which is why we ask you to be as honest as possible if you choose to participate. If you participate there will be no way that your individual responses can be traced to you and all the information you provide will be kept securely. We will also not be linking your responses to the specific online forums that you may be members of to further protect your identity. This project has been approved by The University of Northampton’s ethics committee.
Whether you are a therian or a non-therian we would welcome your participation in this study.
If you wish to find out more about the Therianthropy Research Group then go to http://www.therianthropyresearchgroup.org/
If you have any other queries about the study please contact Dr Helen Clegg at helen.clegg@northampton.ac.uk
If you wish to find out more about the study and/or participate please go to https://www.rationalsurvey.com/s/9011
