Research Participants?

[*thad*]

Done and Done. Can you post the results in this thread for futre referance?? I know i can get the email but if anyone else wanted to see them it maybe a good idea.
Cheers
Ross

[doc dogg]

Sure thing, thanks for participating

[doc dogg]

Hi everyone,

I've finally finished my thesis and it is submitted. My supervisor was really impressed with the results I produced and we are working on packaging them in a format that will be suitable for publication. He is fairly confident that the article will be published and I'm the primary author so it will count towards my PhD applications and hopefully make me competitive in scholarship applications.

Thanks to the members who participated, I couldn't have done it without you I've provided the abstract from my thesis for those who were interested in seeing the results. Once it is graded and/or published I can provide more in depth information by way of a web page I will set up.

I'll be super busy in the next few weeks reformatting the thesis and I've received a promotion at work too so I'm working my arse off at the moment. Keep an eye out for me in mid December in the background behind the Minister for Health and Ageing when she delivers a new product we have been contracted to supply for DOHA. I'll be stroking my chin and nodding as she talks



Abstract
There is a lack of understanding as to the psychological processes that underpin how employees deal with the personal and work related email they receive whilst at work. Previous research has used self report measures to address employee email behaviours but this falls short of management's capability to monitor the actual behaviour. 39 employed individuals completed a 5 day communication diary recording their actual behaviour upon receiving personal and work related email as well as the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale. It was found that vigilant individuals were more likely to use email in an efficient manner by deleting personal email and being less likely to open email later. Procrastinators, buckpassers and people experiencing high levels of negative affect were all more likely to delay dealing with email, which could be viewed as dealing with email in a less efficient manner. Consistent with previous research (Baker & Phillips, 2007; Phillips & Reddie, 2007) procrastinators were found to be more likely to reply to a higher proportion of work related emails. This implies that procrastinators are using work related email as a method to delay working on other tasks at work, while still giving the impression to others that they are working.

[greasykitchen]

Interesting, as so much of my work is done via - even with people in the same office. I counted today - I have 84 email archive folders for different topics for this year alone!! I usually attend to them as they come in or soon after, but many things get left (flagged) but never get done. Very few personal emails, but that's just me.

And as someone who's just finished a PhD (as in today after more than 6.5 years) best of luck in your further studies.