Social support as a stress buffer or stress amplifier: The moderating role of social motives

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Stress and anxiety

• Registration Number: DRKS00028503
• Lead Sponsor: niversität Konstanz

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-03-09
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 308

Inclusion Criteria

age: > 18 years, men and women, german speaking participants

Exclusion Criteria

- Participation in previous stress experiments (TSST).
- Psychology & Physical Education students: up to and including 2nd semester only.
- Women who use hormonal contraception
- Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
- Any (chronic) physical illnesses: e.g. cardiovascular complaints,
Diabetes, neurological diseases, skin diseases, circulatory disorders,
immune system disorders, endocrine diseases
- Psychopathology: medically or psychotherapeutically diagnosed psychic
disorder (e.g. depression, sleep disorders) and /or a diagnosed psychiatric or neurological
psychiatric or neurological disease (e.g. disorders of the
attention)
- Regular medication intake: e.g. psychotropic drugs, hormonal preparations,
other medications
- Drug use
- Smoker
- BMI over 30 (obesity)

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intended outcome: implementation of the experimental study by December 2022; <br>target: 308 participants. <br>Individual data collection will take approximately 2.5 hours and will take place in a psychological laboratory. Three participants will participate in the Trier Social Support Test for groups at the same time.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Target outocome: 308 subjects in experimental study.<br>no further secondary target criterion