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

Philipps University

Status

Completed

Conditions

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

Treatments

Behavioral: Thinking, writing and imagining

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04461548

Micro_expect_compass

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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.

Enrollment

181 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

fluent in German language
access to a computer/tablet/smartphone with audio output/headphones

Exclusion criteria

not willing to take part in an online-intervention (duration: 60 minutes)
no access to a computer/tablet/smartphone with audio output/headphones

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

181 participants in 4 patient groups

Experimental group 1: Best Possible Self

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are asked to think and write about their best possible future self and to imagine this positive future subsequently.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Thinking, writing and imagining

Experimental group 2: Best Possible Self + next steps

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are asked to think and write about their best possible future self and what the next steps could be to reach that best possible future. Subsequently, participants are asked to imagine this positive future.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Thinking, writing and imagining

Experimental group 3: Self-compassion

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are asked to think and write about a self-compassion exercise and to imagine this content subsequently.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Thinking, writing and imagining

Active control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants are asked to think and write about a neutral task that is comparable to the experimental groups.