In November of 1997, the Bray Y2K Survey 1 was developed by Darlyne G. Nemeth, Ph.D., George E. Hearn, Ph.D., and C. Christiane Creveling, M.A., in conjunction with Bray Communications, Inc., and Peter deJager, the world’s foremost authority on the Year 2000 Computer Crisis. Since that time, Ralph M. Dreger, Ph.D., and John Lambros have joined the team to assist with data analysis. After local distribution in Louisiana to numerous business and professional associations, the Bray Y2K Survey was posted on deJager’s Year 2000 website for mass distribution. The Survey originally measured four factors: Content/Knowledge, Denial/Resistance, Anxiety/Apprehension, and Depression/Discouragement. Factor analysis conducted on samples from over 5300 respondents, however, suggested the clear presence of only three factors. Thus, the affective scales of Anxiety/Apprehension and Depression/Discouragement were meshed into one factor, Personal, Even Physiological, Concern About Y2K. The other two factors were labeled Knowledgeable Concern About Y2K Versus Confusion and Denial About Y2K.

      The results of this analysis paved the way for the development of a second questionnaire, The Year 2000 Questionnaire 23, which measures attitudinal groups in the population toward the upcoming millennium. Specifically, The Year 2000 Questionnaire was designed to distinguish between the General Population, Militia types, Religious types (predominantly fundamentalist), Apocalyptic types (as distinguished from Religious), and Disturbed members of these aforementioned populations.

      Both the English and Spanish 45 versions of this questionnaire were posted on the Internet at the Boston University Center for Millennial Studies website (www.mille.org) through the end of 1999. Data analysis is currently in progress. Results of this study, Outcome of Millennium 2000: Historical, Technical, Psychological, and Research-Based Perspectives, will be presented by D.G. Nemeth, R. Landes, C.C. Creveling, R.M. Dreger, & M. Schexnayder at the 108th Annual Convention of The American Psychological Association in Washington, DC, 8/4-8/2000.

Outcome of Millennium 2000: Historical, Technical, Psychological, and Research-Based Perspectives. To be presented by D.G. Nemeth, R. Landes, C.C. Creveling, R.M. Dreger, & M. Schexnayder at the 108th Annual Convention of The American Psychological Association in Washington, DC, 8/4-8/2000.

Detour Magazine (Dec/Jan 2000) Interview featured in the article, "Brave New World," 81.

Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) Interview by Diana Baker for airing on 12/31/99 and 1/2/2000.

Columbia Broadcasting Service (CBS) Interview by Debra Gallant. Posted at www.cbs.medscape.com during the week of December 20th, 1999.

Y2K: Social Implications. Panel included Darlyne G. Nemeth, Ph.D., Richard Landes (Boston, MA), Peter Neumann, Thomas D. Oleson (Framingham, MA), & Jesse Feiler (Philmont, NY). Sponsered by the Boston University Center for Millennial Studies in October, 1998 at the Boston Public Library.