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

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

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.

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