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Accepted: 7 July 2024

First Online: 7 August 2024

Declarations

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: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The ethical review process included the ethics commission of Sigmund Freud University reviewing the following documents prior to the start of the empirical research: study description, methodological approach, participant recruitment, selection criteria, informed consent forms (internal form for the prestudies, and informed consent form used by the collaborating research institute who was responsible for the data collection in the main study), invitation text of external research institute (main study), privacy policy of external institute (main study), data protection, and questionnaires. Following the detailed examination of my submission, the commission accepted my application.

: The data collection of the main study was sponsored by Krone Verlag, the publisher of Austria’s largest daily newspaper in which the author writes a weekly column. The involvement of the sponsor was limited to providing funding.

: Study design, recruitment of participants, analysis, and interpretation of data as well as writing the manuscript were not in any way related to the sponsor.