The Intergenerational Transmission of Wisdom from Elders in the LGBTQ+ Community: A Letter Writing Survey
Creators: name: McLean, Kate
name: Weststrate, Nic
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: General information 1. Project title: The Intergenerational Transmission of Wisdom from Elders in the LGBTQ+ Community: A Letter Writing Survey 2. Authors and Afﬁliations: Nic M. Weststrate, University of Illinois, Chicago; Kate C. McLean, Western Washington University 3. Contact details: nicwest@uic.edu; Kate.McLean@wwu.edu 4. Research question(s): a. What is the content of the life lessons LGBTQ+ elders desire to share with youth? b. Is variability in content associated with psychosocial well-being? 5. Project start date: a. Estimated project end date: May 2021 – May 2022 6. Should this study be gated? a. If yes, until when? No. b. Has this research received approval from an Institutional Review Board (IRB) or ethical board? Yes. c. If yes, please name date and institution of approval: Western Washington University, May 7, 2021. Research design speciﬁcs This is a correlational design. We will obtain letters written by elders to anonymous youth, in which we ask elders to share life lessons from their personal experiences. We will code the letters and examine associations between those codes and our other survey assessments: 1) Brief Wisdom Screening Scale a. Glück, J., König, S., Naschenweng, K., Redzanowski, U., Dorner, L., Straßer, I., &amp; Wiedermann, W. (2013). How to measure wisdom: content, reliability, and validity of five measures. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:405. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00405 2) Loyola Generativity Scale a. McAdams, D. P., &amp; de St. Aubin, E. (1992). A theory of generativity and its assessment through self-report, behavioral acts, and narrative themes in autobiography. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 1003-1015. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.62.6.1003 3) Embitterment a. Linden M., Baumann K., Lieberei B. &amp; Rotter M. (2009). The Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder Self-Rating Scale (PTED Scale). Clinical Psychology &amp; Psychotherapy,16, 139–147. 4) Brief Symptoms Inventory a. Derogatis, L. R. (2001). Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)-18: Administration, scoring and procedures manual. Minneapolis, MN: NCS Pearson. 5) Self-perceptions of Aging a. Turner, S. G., Hooker, K., &amp; Geldhof, G. J. (2021). Self-perceptions of aging: Factorial structure and invariance by gender. The Gerontologist, 61, 425-429. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa059 We have funds to collect data from 100 participants on Prolific. Thus, sample size is based on feasibility. This is a largely exploratory study. We will examine the letters to determine how to code them, and we anticipate coding for concepts such as: 1) Event type 2) Content of the lesson 3) Valence of the lesson shared 4) Degree of elaboration on the lesson Analysis Once we have determined how to code the data we will update this pre-registration with our planned analyses. We anticipate that they will be largely descriptive statistics and correlational analyses. Given that our sample size is determined by feasibility, and that our analyses are dependent on the coding system we develop, we will conduct post-hoc power analyses.