Information Statement
PROJECT TITLE: Personality factors and the pokies, a brief survey.
Chief Investigator: Supervisor:
Ms Fiona O'Connor Dr Nicola Ivory
Master of Psychological
Practice Candidate School of Psychology
School of Psychology Charles Sturt University
Charles Sturt University Bathurst, NSW, Australia
Bathurst, NSW, Australia P: 02 6338 4553
E: fiona.oconnor259@hotmail.com E: nivory@csu.edu.au
You are invited to participate in a research study investigating the relationship between personality and Electronic Gambling Machine (EGM) use. Participation is open to anybody aged 18 and over who has played EGM at least once in the last year.
Participation should take 15-20 minutes and involves completing an online survey where you will answer questions about the frequency of your gambling, your gambling preferences and your feelings about gambling. You will then be asked a series of questions relating to personality and stress. You will also be asked some brief demographic questions, about your age, sex, gender, location, education, and employment status.
There is no payment for participating in this study, however a voucher will be rewarded at random to one participant.
As a thank-you, you will be invited to leave your email address at the end of the study to be entered in a draw to receive an AU$50 Mastercard digital gift voucher. Your email address will be stored separately to your data, deleted after the draw, and will not compromise your anonymity.
The data collected will be presented in Ms Fiona O'Connor's master’s Dissertation and may also be presented at academic conferences or published in a peer-reviewed journal. The researchers named on this Information Statement, and other researchers who may join the research team in the future, may also re-analyse your data as part of future related or un-related studies.
Your confidentiality is assured as your data will be stored without reference to your name or other identifying information. At no point will you be asked to provide identifying information such as your name.
Following completion of the study, all responses will be saved on password protected computers where it will be stored securely.
Should the findings of the study be published, de-identified response data (allowing the reported findings to be verified) may be placed in a public data repository. No individual participant will be identified in, or could be identified from, any published report or published dataset from this study.
Participation is entirely voluntary. Whether or not you decide to participate is your decision and will not disadvantage you. If you do decide to participate, you may withdraw yourself and your data from the project at any time (prior to submitting your data at the end), without reason or consequence.
Should you choose to withdraw from this study prior to its completion, we may retain and analyse any data collected from you up until that point. Since participation is confidential, there is no way of identifying your individual data once it has been submitted. It is therefore not possible to withdraw from the study after you have submitted your data at the end.
If participating in this study cases distress to you in any way, you are encouraged to discontinue participating. For support of any kind, please consider contacting your GP, visiting SANE.org (sane.org/get-help), contacting the Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858, visiting gamblingaware.com (https://www.gambleaware.nsw.gov.au/) contacting Gamblers Anonymous on (02) 9726 6625 or calling Lifeline 131 114 (Lifeline is for urgent crisis support only).
If you wish to ask any questions prior to participating, please contact either of the named researchers above.
If you wish to download a copy of this statement, please copy and paste the below link to your browser:
https://tinyurl.com/3sjmkhk9
Note: The Charles Sturt University Human Research Ethics Committee has approved this project (H23614). If you have any complaints or reservations about the ethical conduct of this project, you may contact the Committee through the Research Integrity Unit:
Presiding Officer, Human Research Ethics Committee, Charles Sturt University, Locked Bag 588, Wagga Wagga NSW 2650
Tel: (02) 6933 4213. Email: ethics@csu.edu.au
Any issues you raise will be treated in confidence and investigated fully and you will be informed of the outcome.
Charles Sturt University is an Australian University, TEQSA Provider Identification: PRV12018. Charles Sturt University CRICOS Provider: 00005F
By progressing beyond this information statement, you are indicating your informed consent to participate in this study. You are free to withdraw this consent and stop participating at any time by closing your browser window.
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