Participants in this research were recruited through a mass email sent to all student
leaders, staff, and faculty at Southeastern University. Students were deemed “student leaders” by
their active participation within an on-campus student leadership program such as the
Department of Spiritual Formation (DSF), the Department of Student Experience (DSE), and the
Department of Student Learning (DSL). The pool of voluntary participants was then narrowed
through a sequence of surveys each denoting specific stipulations such as holding a leadership
position, being an introvert, and experiencing high levels of invalidation and/or inadequacy.