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NCT Number: NCT05896085

Game Based Assessment of Emotion-regulation Skills in College Students

The aim of this study will be to investigate the validity of the in-game performance measurements or scores as indicators of students'ER abilities.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Babes-Bolyai University

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • first year student at Babes-Bolyai University
  • internet and PC access to complete the scales and game

Exclusion criteria

  • no internet or PC access

Treatment and study plan

REThink game

Other

The Rethink therapeutic game is an online game developed based on Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy and has two versions: for children and adolescents and for adults. The Rethink therapeutic game for adults is available in 3D and VR version and consists of four levels, each of them training a specific emotion regulation ability such as: emotional awareness, mindfulness, cognitive change

Primary outcomes

  1. Mental Health

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12 by Goldberg &Williams,1988 is a self-report scale measuring mental health on a 6-point Likert scale ranging from 0 "never" to 5 "everyday" where grater scores represents better mental health.

  2. Emotion regulation

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ; Garnefski, Kraaij, & Spinhoven, 2001) is a self-report scale measuring emotion regulation on a 5 point Likert scale ranging from "almost never" to "almost always". It had 9 subscales representing 9 emotion regulation strategies and grater scores represents grater involvement in using that strategy.

Secondary outcomes

  1. MAAS

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    Brown, K. W., & Ryan, R. M. (2003). Mindful attention awareness scale. Journal of personality and social psychology The Mindfull Attention Awareness Scale is a 15 items self-report scale, rated on 5 point Likert scale from "almost never" to "almost always", where greater scores represents better mindfulness.

  2. Rational and irrational cognition

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014) is a 24-items self-report scale that measures the presence of rational and irrational cognitions. It has two subscales one for rational cognitions and one for irrational cognitions. Greater scores at each scale represents more rational/irrational cognitions in an individual. Items are rated on a 5 point Liker scale ranging from "totally disagree" to "totally agree".

  3. Atention to positive and negative information

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    Attention to Positive and Negative Information Scale Noguchi, K., Gohm, C. L., & Dalsky, D. J. (2006). Cognitive tendencies of focusing on positive and negative information. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(6), 891-910. It is a self- report scale for measuring the attention to positive or negative information. It is rated on a 5 point Likert scale ranging "not at all" to " completely conform"and it has 29 items. Grater scores at this scale represent more attantion toward a specific type of information-negative or positive.

  4. emotional distress

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    Distress and positive emotions: Profile of Affective Distress Plus; PED Opris & Macavei, 2007 is a self-report scale that measure distress. It had 42 items rated on a 5 point Liker scale ranging from "not al all" to "a lot" and grater scores represent grated level of distress.

  5. emotional awareness

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    The Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ, Rieffe et al., 2008) is a 32-item questionnaire on a three-point Liker scale, from 0 "not true" to 2 "certainly true" where greater scores represents better levels of emotional awareness.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Babes-Bolyai University

Other

Collaborators

  • The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Jun 9, 2023
Registry last updated
Dec 6, 2023

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