I am an undergraduate student conducting an honors thesis on how feelings of guilt and shame impact parental confidence when a child is placed in the NICU after birth. I also want to look into what factors contribute to these feelings of guilt and shame. For example, I think mothers are going to be more worried about how their emotional state is going to impact their care for their newborn but fathers will be be more worried about financial burdens and paying for new medical devices. If anyone has any suggestions for how I should approach this research and how I should measure these variables it would be greatly appreciated. I am very new to research and need some guidance.
I don't mean for this response to be self-serving but we have a 3-minute image-based activity that measures emotions across four domains of life, guilt and shame among the measures, but also more fundamental issues of identity, compassion, and control. Please reach out directly if you have interest. The assessment has been validated in peer-reviewed journals. We would make the assessment available at no charge.
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