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Article History

Received: 19 November 2022

Accepted: 15 October 2023

First Online: 25 October 2023

Declarations

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: Ethical approval was obtained by the host University’s Ethical Committee corresponding ethical guidelines. Application approval number: Mantzios/#10580/sub3/R(B)/2022/May/BLSS FAEC. Following exposure to a participant information sheet, participants were exposed to an informed consent page. Informed consent was given by following specific instructions set in the guidelines of the British Psychological Society for internet-mediated research, where a designated consent page used checkboxes to allow participants to indicate that they have read and understood each statement and key aspects of the consent information (e.g., their withdrawal rights, how the information will be disseminated) before proceeding to the actual research. The British Psychological Society (BPS) ethical guidelines were followed when collecting internet-mediated research, specifying GDPR/UK Data Protection Act (2018) privacy (see Ethics guidelines for internet-mediated research. Leicester: BPS, Available online: ExternalRef removed). The same guidelines specified the retention of data for 10 years in a secure institutional server, to which statement participants also provided consent.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants to publish the findings of this research.

: The author declares no conflict of interest.