Reading and Mindfulness

You are invited to participate in a research project examining the relation between reading and mindfulness. You will be asked to fill out a questionnaire stating age, gender, and occupation, followed by another set of questions about reading habits, including amount of time per day spent reading, what category the reading falls within (entertainment, work/study, other). You will then be asked to fill out a fifteen question form on mindfulness, the MAAS or mindful attention awareness scale.

Your participation in this study is completely voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time without penalty. However, because no names or identifying information are included with your questionnaire, once you have submitted your responses, it will no longer be possible for the researcher to remove your data from the data set. Please note that by consenting to participate, you have not waived your rights to legal recourse should you experience any research-related harm. This study is being conducted as part of a course requirement for the Research Design and Analysis course (PSYC 2023).

All information obtained is strictly confidential. DO NOT put your names on the questionnaires. Please note that any data sent electronically or stored online may be legally accessed by domestic or foreign authorities. All responses will be analyzed as a group and all data will be presented in summary form; no individual data will ever be presented. Only the researchers and potentially the lab instructor for the course will see the raw data. While the results of this study will be included in a paper submitted for PSYC 2023 as part of a course requirement, as mentioned above, only summary statistics will ever be presented and no individual data will ever be included in the paper.

This study will take approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete. There are no known harms from the completion of this study. There are no direct benefits to you in terms of the research results; however, your participation will contribute to a dataset that will be used to further our understanding of the relationship between these variables. 

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