Help! How do you cope with experiencing discrimination as deaf person?

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Hi all!

I am currently a PhD student in social psychology at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC) looking for volunteers to take part in our study on dealing with discrimination experiences among deaf people! You will be asked to complete a 30 minute online survey with multiple measures regarding your experiences with discrimination as a deaf person, as well as general background information such as your age and gender. All participants will be entered into drawings for cash prizes as compensation for their time. There will be one Grand Prize drawing for $150 (Canadian $ or U.S. equivalent) and 2 additional draws for $50 (Canadian $ or U.S. equivalent).

PARTICIPANT REQUIREMENTS:

Must identify as a deaf person.

If you are interested in completing the survey, please follow the survey link listed below:

https://cgi.sfu.ca/~sisclab/cgi-bin/rws4.cgi?FORM=OnlineCopingSurveyDeaf

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by email at routten@sfu.ca.

Studying how deaf people deal with experiences of discrimination is lacking in social psychological research. These findings could help inform researchers and clinicians on the best ways to go about helping deaf people cope with the discrimination they face. Your help would be appreciated. If you know anyone else who would be interested in helping out, please forward them the link to the survey.

Thanks in advance for your help!!!

Cheers,
Rob
 
Hey there.

Hey there. I totally understand the concern, but this is not a homework assignment or anything like that. I am a social psychologist at a university who has received permission directly from Alex Chu @ All Deaf in order to use this forum because of the practical implications for deaf people who encounter discrimination.

Thank You.
 
lol frisky i sometimes think this is happens more often than we realise
hmmm Rob-O sounded like "robber* guffaws
 
Responding to Frisky

Well I appreciate the skepticism, this is legit. I am a PhD student in social psychology at Simon Fraser University...

Self in Social Context Lab

I'd also be happy to discuss more of the research that we do in our lab or direct you to some relevant research that I have been a part of.

Cheers. :)
 
Grummer said:
lol frisky i sometimes think this is happens more often than we realise
hmmm Rob-O sounded like "robber* guffaws
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I agree. That sucks. well i was discriminated at my work back in my time years ago. Yeah I have moved on with my life. ;)
 
Dont really care about the money, not that I'm rich but I just never win lol. But whats the point of your PH.d paper?
 
I do need the money, I wanted a job. I will take the survey so I can cast my scream of discrimination. I must say as a deaf person I have been discriminated. I was hired and trained at a company.a year earlier. The next week they laid me off. I feel bad but I am bouncing back. The job I had been hired for was none to my Computer Science training. The people did not understand interperters or that I was about two seconds slow. I am a late deafness person so I have to watch interperter carefully. After training I can do a job on my own. I don't come close to a PHD. but let my two cents be heard,read and signed.
 
Purpose & Questions

Hey everyone. The Coles notes version is that I'm building on my Master's work. A key finding in social psychological literature is that among marginalized or disadvantaged social groups...identification with ones group acts as a protective factor against the negative psychological consequences associated with perceived disadvantage in society (which of course is bad). Because perceiving that you may be disadvantaged also implicates one's group (i.e., "I face discrimination because I am a deaf person"), not just one's self and because perceived disadvantaged is an intergroup appraisal as well as an individual appraisal, beliefs about what one's group as a whole can do, might be just as important if not as important as beliefs about what you can do as an inidvidual in order to protect psychological well-being. In clinical literature coping with stressors is only framed as what an individual acting alone can do to cope. Basically my MA showed that group ID can foster grou-level appraisals and these appraisals in turn help protect psychological well-being. After a lengthy review of clincal psych literature I have created a variety of appraisals (group, and individual) and am currently creating my own measure of coping in response to perceived disadvantaged--which doesn't exist. This study is preliminary in the sense that I'm more interested in seeing what types of factors emerge (what items hold together etc.)...so that I can pair it down to a few factors. We are looking at a variety of groups and have so theoretical and empirical ideas as to which factors might be most protective and which might mediate the relationship between identification and well-being. Basically this line of research (which is funded by the Canadian government--also meaning I can avoid having to take out loans for my PhD..which is nice...believe me I ain't rich I've been a student for a long time now) is to inform clinicians, coucellors and members of disadvantaged social groups about which types of points/or beliefs to stress when helping people who have experienced discrimination because of their group membership or who just feel bad about what they have to go through in life as a result of that group membership.

No item was exactly the same...some were very similar and that was not done so much for honesty in this study but just to see what types of items hold together when we do the statistical analyses because this preliminary measure is eventually goingt to be paired down.

Also, you may not be helping yourself by doing this but ultimately in the long run you could be helping others which is good. That's why I love doing what I do (Yes Im a nerd).

Thanks for helping out everyone. It's greatly apreciated. Hope that answers a few questions....sorry for the length! :)
 
It sounds very cerebral and interesting. Good luck in your academic pursuits.
 
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