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The Effects of Interventions Aiming at Optimizing Expectations and Inducing Positive Emotions After an Acute Stressor

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Philipps University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Healthy Participants

Treatments

Behavioral: Writing task

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02848014
2016-08k

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a short psychological intervention aiming at optimizing expectations is able to foster positive emotions and whether an intervention inducing positive emotions is able improve participants' expectations. Furthermore, the investigators will examine whether both interventions are effective in buffering the stress response after an acute stressor in a healthy sample compared to a control condition.

Enrollment

74 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • fluent in German language

Exclusion criteria

  • chronic disease
  • mental disease
  • the evening before the day of the experiment until end of the experiment (the next day): caffeine, alcohol, intensive physical exercise, chewing gum
  • acute hay fever
  • current intake of psychotropic medication

Trial design

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

74 participants in 3 patient groups

Expectation
Experimental group
Description:
Participants are asked to think and write about ways how they can positively influence/control the stress during stress induction. They also can think of strategies they used in their past. The purpose of this arm is to improve participants' personal control expectations.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Writing task
Emotion
Experimental group
Description:
Participants in this group are asked to write a gratitude-letter to a person they want to thank. The purpose of this arm is to foster positive emotions.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Writing task
Control
Active Comparator group
Description:
Participants in this group are asked to do a neutral writing task. The task is to write a protocol of yesterday's to-dos.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Writing task

Trial contacts and locations

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