Preambule
Your participation in this research, which aims to better understand the links between adversity events and decision-making, is greatly appreciated. Nevertheless, before agreeing to participate by signing this information and consent form, please take the time to read it. It will help you understand what is involved in your participation, so you can make an informed decision about it.
This form may contain words that you do not understand. We invite you to communicate by e-mail with the researcher responsible for the project or with a member of their research team to ask any questions you consider helpful. Please feel free to ask them an explanation for any unclear words or information. Take all the time you need to read and understand this form before making your decision.
Objectives and summary of the research project
The research in which you are now invited to participate aims to study the link between life events on decision-making, which we will observe from your answers to a set of games and questionnaires. This project will provide a better understanding of the variations in social decision-making in a population that has faced or not, at a critical time in life, certain adversity situations.
Nature and duration of your participation
Your collaboration in this research project involves taking part in a series of online tasks in which you will be asked to interact with other people. You will first have to make several decisions about the distribution of amounts of money between you and others. This primary part of the study should last approximately 15 minutes. Then, you will need to complete four online questionnaires about different life events and about your understanding of the people surrounding you as well as their emotions. This part of the study should take about 22 minutes, for a total of 37 minutes.
Risks and disadvantages
Answering some questions may cause you feelings of discomfort. If this happens, do not hesitate to contact the research director, Ms. Julie Maheux. She can guide you to a resource that will help you. A list of references will also be made available to you at the end of the questionnaire.
Advantages or benefits
The contribution to the expansion of knowledge about social decision-making following the experience of adverse situations is a benefit expected from your participation. Participating in this research also gives you an opportunity to reflect on yourself, your relationships, your attitudes and your behaviors. Finally, this study presents some tasks that can be stimulating for people who appreciate this kind of challenge.
Compensation or incentive
By participating in this study, you can gain a bonus of up to US $ 4.00, which will be determined by your choices during the decision-making tasks. Indeed, you will be allocated a certain number of points - each point worth 2 US cents - depending on the decisions you make for each of these tasks. We will use your results in one of the decision-making tasks, randomly determined, to calculate the amount of money you will receive. At the end of the study, you will receive a unique code to insert into Amazon’s Mechanical Turk which will allow us to transfer monetary compensation to you within 1 to 3 days.
Confidentiality
The data collected by this study is completely confidential. Confidentiality will be ensured by keeping consent forms in electronic format in an online space (Dropbox platform), confidential and protected by a password only known by Professors Julie Maheux (UQTR) and Sébastien Hétu (UdeM). The raw and compiled data from the questionnaires and tasks of this study will also be kept in electronic format and protected by another password, known only to the principal investigator and her two co-investigators, then associated with a code for each participant. The three researchers who will have access to this password have signed a confidentiality agreement. Furthermore, the confidentiality of participants will be re-assured by the de-nominalization of their responses, that is to say that their ID on MTurk will be kept in a document separate from the others. Thus, the file containing the key between the ID of the participants and their code (for the calculation, the transfer of the financial compensation and the dissemination of the study results) will be protected by a new password and kept on a secure and confidential virtual workspace. The only people who will have access to the data denominated on this virtual space will be the principal researcher and his co-researchers.
The research results, which may be disseminated in the form of articles, thesis and communications, will not identify the participants.
The data will then be kept for a period of 7 years in a file protected by a password on a Dropbox belonging to the principal researchers. They will then be completely anonymized and the original documents linking names to data will be destroyed. Only data that does not identify the participants will be kept after this period.
Voluntary Participation
Your participation in this study is on a voluntary basis. You are entirely free to participate or not, to refuse to answer certain questions or to withdraw your participation at any time without prejudice and without having to provide explanations.
Research Manager
For more information or for any questions regarding this research project, you can contact Steffi Benoit (steffi.benoit@uqtr.ca).
Monitoring of the ethical aspects of research
This research has been approved by the ethics committee for research with human beings at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières and a certificate bearing the number CER-19-258-07.32 was issued and revised on September 29, 2020.
For any ethical question or complaint regarding this research, you must contact the secretary of the research ethics committee of the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, by phone (819) 376-5011, ext. 2129 or by email CEREH@uqtr.ca.
Commitment of the researcher
I, Steffi Benoit, undertake to carry out this study in accordance with all the ethical standards which apply to projects involving human participants.
consent
By clicking on the NEXT button, you indicate:
• being 18 years if age or older
• having read the information
• agreeing to participate