NCT04461548

Micro-interventions Aiming to Optimize Expectations or Self-compassion to Improve Well-being/Reduce Stress and Their Differential Effects

Micro-interventions Aiming to Optimize Expectations or Self-compassiong and Their Differential Effects

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 181 (actual)
• Sponsor: Philipps University Marburg · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study's aim is to determine whether brief interventions (micro-interventions) aiming to optimize expectations or enhancing feelings of self-compassion are able to improve well-being/reduce perceived stress in comparison to an active control group in an online-study

Detailed description

In this study we use a pre-post-test design to compare the effects of the (classic) best possible self intervention vs. the best possible self intervention (including ways on how to reach the imagined best possible future) vs. a self-compassion intervention vs. an active control group. We are interested in the differential effects and examine several moderators.

Conditions

• no Specific Clincal Condition Required (Focus is on Persons Who Are Feeling Stressed or Want to Improve Their Wellbeing)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Thinking, writing and imagining	All participants are asked to take some time to think and write about the content of the respective intervention group. After the writing exercise (approx. 15-20 min) participants are asked to imagine that content for about 5 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-06
• Primary completion: 2020-10-19
• Completion: 2020-10-19
• First posted: 2020-07-08
• Last updated: 2024-08-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany