NCT04753801

What Are the Ingredients for the Best Form of the Best Possible Self (BPS) Intervention?

What Are the Ingredients for the Best Form of the Best Possible Self (BPS) Intervention? Combining the BPS Intervention With Mindfulness

• 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

This study aims to determine the relevant 'ingredients' to make the best possible self (BPS) intervention most efficacious and test whether the BPS's efficacy can be enhanced by including mindfulness aspects.

Detailed description

The best possible self (BPS) intervention is a brief positive psychology intervention to increase a person's positive affect and optimism. The BPS has been used in different forms (writing vs. imagining/visualizing vs. writing + imagining/visualizing the best possible self). However, it remains unclear which 'ingredients' are necessary to let the BPS unfold its effects. This online study aims to determine the relevant 'ingredients' to make the best possible self (BPS) intervention most efficacious. Since mindfulness interventions have recently indicated promising effects on positive and negative affect, another goal of this study is to test whether the BPS's efficacy can be enhanced by including aspects of mindfulness.

Conditions

• Healthy Participants

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Thinking, writing and imagination	All participants are asked to take some time to think and write about the respective intervention group's content. In some groups (after the writing exercise (approx. 15min)), participants are also asked to imagine that content or engage in a mindfulness activity or recall task for about 5 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-01
• Primary completion: 2021-03-27
• Completion: 2021-03-31
• First posted: 2021-02-15
• Last updated: 2024-08-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany