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Accepted: 1 February 2025

First Online: 27 February 2025

Declarations

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: In our study, we have followed the guidelines of ethics approval of the German Research Council: privacy was respected (data protection was proofed by the data protection officer; all researchers who had direct or indirect contact with the participants or their data were bound to data secrecy; participants were informed about data privacy; anonymization was realized by using consecutive numbers as code for the interviews and contact information were stored in a second document; deletion of the data is possible at any time and, without request, the data will be deleted automatically after 10 years); study participation was voluntary and that withdrawal was possible at any time. After informing the participants, their written consent was obtained. There was no physical or mental stress induced or required and no deception was used. We did not have an official ethical approval, as following the ethical guidelines is usually sufficient in Germany for assessing low-invasive self-reported measures as personality measures (Big5), affect, and behavior.

: Informed consent was obtained from all the individual participants included in the study.

: The authors declare no competing interests.