How to Optimally Train Emotional and Social Skills

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare different well-being intervention components in healthy individuals. The main question it aims to answer is how an optimal emotional and social learning program should be composed. Participants will participate in one of 16 courses over 14-weeks which will have a varying combination of four components:

* emotion regulation,
* mindfulness,
* self-acceptance and
* resource activation.

For each of these components there will be a control component. Further, there will be a waitlist-control-group included.

Conditions

• Mental Health

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Emotion regulation

Psycho-education elements concerning the emergence and functions of emotions, progressive muscle relaxation (PMR), analysis of emotional situations and group exercises

BEHAVIORAL

Self-acceptance

Exercises and guided self-experience targeting heightened knowledge about oneself and acceptance of all personal strengths and weaknesses, exercises based on the internal family systems by R. Schwartz.

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness

Guided mindfulness-exercises, different meditation techniques like body scan, breathing meditation. Reflection and exchange within the group

BEHAVIORAL

Resource activation

Exercises focusing on developing positive emotions and fostering personal strengths, based on the Positive Psychology movement of Martin Seligman, working on individual values, life goals and sense of life.

BEHAVIORAL

Control component 1_social behaviors in groups

Control component for emotion regulation

BEHAVIORAL

Control component 2_communication skills

Control component for self-acceptance

BEHAVIORAL

Control component 3_stress management

Control component for mindfulness

BEHAVIORAL

Control component 4_constructive conflict resolution

Control component for resource activation

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Klaus Wälde, Prof. Dr. · Chair in Macroeconomics, JGU Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-07-31

Primary Completion

2024-07-31

Completion

2024-07-31