Participation Details
This project aims to advance scientific understanding of how marriages develop over time. We collect information from couples about once every four months over two years of marriage.
**June 2024 Update: ALL components of the project are now online!**
Your 1st Contact:
The first portion of this study will consist of you and your partner filling out online surveys at home and then meeting with us briefly via Zoom. The initial surveys typically take about 3 hours, but you do not have to do them all at once.
The Zoom meeting is brief (approximately 15 minutes). During this meeting, you and your partner will meet with a member of our project team to go over the next phases of the project and give you a chance to ask questions. We will also take your "photograph" by taking a screen-shot of your Zoom window.
You will be paid with a $50 Amazon e-gift card as a couple for this part of the study.
Immediately After Your Zoom Session:
After your Zoom session, you and your partner will complete a
very brief (5-10 minutes) daily survey for the next 14 days.
You will be paid up to $35 (via an Amazon e-gift card) as a couple for completing these daily surveys, depending on how many are completed.
Four-Month Follow-Up Surveys
We will then send you follow-up surveys every four months. The questionnaires you will be completing at these times are considerably shorter than the initial ones (they should take about 45 minutes to complete).
You will be paid up to $25 (via an Amazon e-gift card) as a couple for each of these short follow-up surveys.
At your one-year follow-up (i.e., one year after your initial contact) your four-month follow-up will be a slightly lengthier survey that takes about 1-1.5 hours to complete.
After you and your partner both complete your one-year follow-up survey, we will again send you brief daily surveys for 14 days.
You will be asked to complete another one of these slightly longer follow-up surveys at your two-year anniversary follow-up (i.e., two years after your initial contact).
You will be paid up to $50 as a couple for each of the longer yearly follow-up surveys, and you will again be paid up to $35 as a couple for completing the daily surveys after your Year One survey.