New York New York!!

In three days (eeek) I leave for New York for a few days before the conference. I ended up with 49 questionnaires - thanks to all who took part (but I need more more more! if we are to make something of this research we need around 200 at least!!)

Anyway I have enough for the conference paper which I am still working on. I enjoy quantitative research but I also get frustrated with it because it often raises more questions than answers!!

Maybe I will post some of these questions on here. Ok here is the first one - over one third have experienced sexual contact when less that 18 years old by someone 5 years or more older than them. Yet when asked to state which of the traumas they have experienced is the main one - 14 of them chose their experience of leaving the EB rather than the sexual contact. Why is this?
Women seem to experience more difficulties with being sociable and with being assertive (though both men and women seem to have difficulty with being assertive).
I will share more when I am less tired ....... my eyes are full of numbers at the moment and my glass of wine beckons

The Quantitative Research

This is the research I have been promoting lately. 35 people have now responded - I have no idea yet what will emerge - maybe nothing in which case what will I talk about in 3 weeks time!
I need more questionnaires really - so where are you all!! Well they are still coming in.

One thing that has emerged is the level of sexual abuse - for many this is perpetrated by other brethren and for many this has occurred when the person was under 18 years of age. I want to challenge the brethren - what have they done about it, what are they going to do about it. I dont know what the statistics are for the general population - if anyone knows please let me know as I would like to know if the rates in my sample are more or less than in the general population. One problem is - how do you define sexual abuse.

It's not so easy this stuff!