A graduate student from Minneapolis-based Capella University is seeking women entrepreneurs and other working women to participate in a doctoral research study. Elva Fong is investigating why women make voluntary career changes in midlife. Fong is targeting career women ages 35 to 55 who have been in a middle or upper-level management position for more than five years and have made or are in a position to make a midlife career change.

Information from the survey, "The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and a Voluntary Midlife Career Change Decision Among Women," will identify background factors that contribute to a midlife career change. The first part of the study consists of a demographic questionnaire. The second part asks 60 respondents to complete an emotional intelligence survey online. Finally, phone interviews will be conducted with 10 women who have switched careers midlife.

Click here to view the survey.--Eve Gumpel