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How to increase my sample size for on-line study - Any advice?

Hi! I am a psychology PhD student and I research male body-image. I need to invite many adult men to do my on-line questionnaires. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can recruit participants? (e.g., specific on-line resources).

Below are the links (in case you are an adult male and willing to participate)

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Zhh4F4FeRDSc7lftnXGfNg_3d_3d

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=eYygnQDq5xkBuBLkQ3CWPg_3d_3d

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Bg6smT03A3g1UMvsmaBswg_3d_3d

Reply 1

wisecrackinghand

I did an online questionnaire once and had much the same problem, posted mostly to various Google groups but still my participants were largely made up of family and friends. Could you perhaps decide on a different method? I've since changed to unstructured interviews for my PhD and find that they work really well, great for getting a lot of valuable points from fairly few participants.

Reply 2

Purple

Post it in the general discussion forum on here lots of people do and quite a few people do them.

Try other forums, ask people at your university to do it? I was at a uni which had a daily newsletter thing people could put things like this on although I am not sure how many unis do this. Facebook?