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Recent content by Elly Gay

  1. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    Hi all, if anyone else would like to take part in the survey, I will be collecting responses for another week (until 6th June). I will then be writing up the results and will post them on here when complete. Many thanks, Elly :)
  2. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    I will be sure to! The project should be complete in a couple of months!
  3. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    Hi Gracey, thank you so much for participating. Thanks for your thoughts as well. Its great you participated so that I have your perspective in the study. I will be looking at the relationship between social media and loneliness (among other things) so if you strongly disagreed here this will be...
  4. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    Thanks so much for participating. Its really useful hearing the feedback. It has made me think a lot about the pros of a qualitative study as opposed to a quantitative such as this one. A quantitative study just can't capture the breadth of people's experience. I'm inspired to take a qualitative...
  5. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    Thanks, I will be happy to share the study here when it is done!
  6. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    Many thanks for your time!
  7. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    Thanks so much for your feedback Monachopia and for taking part in the survey. I will be sure to reflect your comment about assuming the existence of social relationships in my report as well, it is a very valid point and one I had not considered. Thank you so much for your time.
  8. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    Thanks for your feedback - I do appreciate the limitations of an online survey and I assure you I will not be making any widespread or generalised conclusions from this data. The main aim is to find out more about how social media is used. I will be able to feedback the limitations of the study...
  9. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    I would count a forum such as this as social media. Any online tool that you are using to communicate with others!
  10. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    Hi again, The link is now working. Many thanks again for your support. Monachapia - if you did want to complete the survey - you would need to delete the previous attempt from your browser history then it should work. Many thanks Elly
  11. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    Hi Monachapia, Thanks so much for highlighting this. I'm looking into this now and trying to sort it! I really appreciate you feeding this back. Elly
  12. Elly Gay

    Participants required: Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life

    Autism, Social Media & Quality of Life Study Introduction: Hello, I'm Elly and I'm a Psychology student at University of East London. I also have a sibling with autism. About the research: I'm investigating the relationship between social media use and quality of life in adults with autism...
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