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Received: 28 June 2025

Accepted: 27 February 2026

First Online: 27 March 2026

Declarations

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: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. The present manuscript is original, has not been previously published, and is not under consideration at another journal. The manuscript meets the guidelines for ethical conduct and report of research.

: The authors affirm that informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

: Not applicable. This study reports only aggregate, sample-level data. No individual, potentially identifiable, or anonymized data are presented.

: Cristina-Mihaela Boncea and Lia-Ecaterina Oltean declare they have no competing interests. After the initial submission of this manuscript, Radu Şoflău has applied for and received an offer as an Associate Editor at Current Psychology. He has not been involved in the editorial handling, peer review, or decision-making processes for this manuscript, and he has been fully recused.