Overview
This website is designed to help you learn more about your personality. To do so you will be asked to complete a brief personality survey. This survey will focus on your attachment style (i.e., how you feel in your relationships with important people in your life), your personality, and various experiences that may be taking place in your life (e.g., getting a new job). Additionally, you may be asked to complete some brief questions regarding your current alcohol consumption patterns, decisions about whether to have children, your life satisfaction, and early childhood experiences because we may wish to explore the relationships among these variables. This survey will take 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

You will have an opportunity to enter your email address while taking the survey. This step is completely optional, and you can complete the survey and receive your results without entering this information. However, in the future, we may send additional follow-up surveys to participants who are interested in learning how their personality evolves over time. By providing your email address in this survey, you indicate your interest in receiving these follow-up surveys and consent to being contacted via email with updates regarding this project and additional survey opportunities.

Terms of Service

About. Our research is designed to help us learn more about your personality. In this research, you will be asked to complete a brief, online personality survey. This brief survey will focus on your attachment style (i.e., how you feel in your relationships with important people in your life), your personality, your drinking behaviors, and other psychological variables. Additionally, if you choose to provide an email address, we may contact you with opportunities to complete follow-up personality surveys in the future.

Potential Risks, Benefits, and Privacy. There are no additional anticipated risks associated with this research beyond those that exist in daily life. The potential benefits to you include feedback about your personality. Participation is voluntary and you may skip any questions you do not wish to answer. You may quit at any time without penalty. Your participation in this research will be kept confidential; we will only be collecting your contact information for the purposes of notifying you of future survey opportunities. Your contact information will not be shared with other parties. The researchers will keep the information you provide confidential. However, the service hosting this survey (Qualtrics) may have access to the data you submit and your IP number. We cannot guarantee that this service will keep information you submit confidential.

You may be randomly assigned to answer some questions about your early childhood experiences. Risks related to this portion of the research may include some distress when recalling events asked about your childhood; benefits related to this research include adding to the understanding of human attachment and childhood experiences. The alternative to participating in this study is to opt out and leave the survey. Some of the questions about your childhood concern sensitive topics and may make you feel uncomfortable or upset. Examples of these questions would be 'Did you ever live with anyone who was a problem drinker or alcoholic, or who used street drugs?' or did someone ever 'Touch or fondle you or have you touch their body in a sexual way?' Questions of this nature may be skipped without being penalized. If you wish to reach out to someone based on answering these questions, you may find the following resources helpful: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Call 1-800-273-8255; Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741; National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233.

In general, we will not tell anyone any information about you. When this research is discussed or published, no one will know that you were in the study. However, laws and university rules might require us to disclose information about you. For example, if required by laws or University Policy, study information which identifies you may be seen or copied by the following people or groups: a) The university committee and office that reviews and approves research studies, the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Office for the Protection of Research Subjects; b) University and state auditors, and Departments of the university responsible for oversight of research; c) Federal government regulatory agencies such as the Office of Human Research Protections in the Department of Health and Human Services.

We will keep private information about you confidential to the extent allowed by laws and university policies. When the researchers publicly discuss or publish the results of this research, they will not tell anyone that you were in the study. However, government or university officials who are responsible for monitoring this study and journal staff who review the research results for accuracy may see information that identifies you.

We will submit data from this study to a public access repository. All private information that could identify you will be removed or changed before data are put in a public repository. Anyone can use information from a public access repository.

Restrictions. Only adults at least 18 years of age who are not located in China may participate in this research.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Notice/Consent

The University of Illinois System Privacy Statement and Supplemental Privacy Notice for certain persons in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom describe in detail how the University processes personal information. Your personal information will be collected for the purpose of research as previously described in this informed consent notice. In addition, your personal information will be processed outside of the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom on University of Illinois servers, other collaborating university servers, and/or with cloud storage services hosted by third parties.