Technical Information

‘Share your Cultural Observations’ Questions List

1.      The information you provide in each question will be used for research purposes. All information is anonymous.

·       I accept

·       I don’t accept

 

2.      What gender do you identify with?

 

3.      Which age category do you fall under?

 

4.      What is your nationality / nationalities?

 

5.      What cultural region/s do you feel best describes you?

A cultural region can range from as small as a street to as big as a continent, or even a geographical, transcontinental region (e.g., the Middle East).

 

6.      What is your occupation?

 

7.      Who are you more likely to trust?

·       Someone I view as my superior

·       Someone I view as equal to myself

 

8.      Are you more likely to trust someone you have known for a long time?

·       Yes

·       No

·       This does not impact how much I trust someone.

 

9.      Are you more likely to trust someone because they are part of your extended family?

·       Yes

·       No

·       This does not impact how much I trust someone.

 

10.  Would you trust someone based solely off the recommendation of a friend?                                                                                                                        

·       Yes

·       No

·       This does not impact how much I trust someone.

 

11.  What qualities or skills do you think make someone trustworthy?

e.g being modest, caring-nature, admirable achievements, well dressed.

 

12.  How would you handle the following situation?

You are walking alone down the street in your chosen cultural region, and you encounter a stranger, who asks you for help.

Would you assume the worst or would you assume that the stranger has no other intention than asking you for help?

·       I would assume the stranger was not trustworthy. I do not trust strangers easily.

·       I would assume the stranger is genuinely just asking for help. I trust strangers easily.

 

13.  Are there any tales, anecdotes or proverbs, regarding trust, which are used in your culture you could share with us?

Common stories include The Boy Who Cried Wolf or the Polish proverb featured on the right.

 

14.  Thank you for your responses so far. Please consider helping us further by sharing your stories on trust building.

 

15.  Please share a story of an intercultural dispute or trust building between cultures.

E.g. Thinking someone doesn't like you because they are very direct, when directness is a valued trait in their culture.

What started the incident?

Who was involved?

What was the outcome?

This can be your own story, a story discussed by your peers, or a public dispute. You may use false names for the individuals involved, please do not share any personal data such as full names and contact details in this survey.

Thank you for taking the time to support our project!

Funding of the Project

This project is a Comenius Senior Fellow project funded by the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO).

What is the purpose of this questionnaire?

This open question survey asks you to report your findings/share your cultural observations. This questionnaire was created through Typeface, an online tool to create forms and surveys. Please read the questions listed above before beginning the questionnaire so you may prepare your answers.

Confidentiality, privacy, and access to study results.

The project follows the minimisation of data rule – only necessary information is collected. Therefore, the only personal data that is required is your first name and last name provided in the consent form. You may volunteer your email should you wish to stay informed about the project. All data is kept confidential and will be known only to the core project team. This data will be deleted within a month of the end of the project.

For the purpose of your cultural observations, the questionnaire will ask for some background information about yourself and the subjects of your observations (age bracket, gender, nationality, country of residence, cultural identity). This information is anonymous and will be collated with your cultural observations when sharing the results of the study without any link to your name.

We ask you to follow the same ‘minimisation of data’ rule when conducting your cultural observations. Please do not share any personal data with us regarding the subject of your cultural observations (according to Art. 4 (1) of the General Data Protection Regulation, personal data are any information related to an identified or identifiable natural person). You can only share with us age categories, nationality, gender, country of residence, and the cultural region your study subjects identify with).

Periodically, we will be sharing the study results with all volunteers and the public through our website. If you consented to being kept up to date regarding further opportunities with the project (such as the involvement in writing blog posts), you will be contacted by the project team directly. 

Trust Mediators/THUAS, will be the owner of all anonymous data and information collected in the course of the project not Typeface. Trust Mediators/THUAS will own this data indefinitely.

Voluntary Participation

Your participation in the study is voluntary and you are free to withdraw at any time without giving a reason and without consequences. If that is the case, you will need to inform us by sending an email to TrustMEdiators@hhs.nl.

No Renumeration

You will not be remunerated for participating in this study.

 

Research Integrity

In our project we adhere to the principles underlying the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (available here: https://www.nwo.nl/en/netherlands-code-conduct-research-integrity): honesty, scrupulousness, transparency, independence and responsibility. We ask you to respect these principles too.

Disclaimer

We do not anticipate any risks resulting from this study and we make every effort to post accurate and current information. Nevertheless, it may happen that certain information is not entirely accurate or current. If you have any doubts or see any potential risks that we did not foresee for this study, please contact us, as mentioned above. Trust Mediators accepts no liability for any damages resulting from participation in the citizen science project or from the use of the results of this study or the application of any advice.

Risks

We do not anticipate any risks resulting from this study.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding the project, please contact us at TrustMediators@hhs.nl.

In case of any potential risks that you run into and that we did not foresee for this study, please contact the project leader Barbara Warwas at TrustMediators@hhs.nl.