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Accepted: 6 May 2025

First Online: 31 May 2025

Declarations

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: "Not Applicable": As in Germany, approval by an ethics committee is only necessary if medical or physiological information about the participants is collected or when participants are treated in a way that may harm their health, approval from the ethics committee was not necessary. Nevertheless, we closely followed the guidelines for the treatment of human subjects of the German Psychological Association (DGPs, 2016), the model code of ethics of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA, 2015) and of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2017).

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Participants were informed about purpose, duration, and procedures of the studies and about the confidentiality of all the data that were collected. Furthermore, participants were informed that they could always withdraw from the study without any disadvantages and were provided contact information in case of questions. After being given this information, participants agreed to participate in our study and that their data was collected, stored, and analyzed for our research.

: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.