Klütsch, Jennifer https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5683-2912
Schwab, Jasmin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1750-0688
Böffel, Christian https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3623-3140
Zimmermann, Verena https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6873-8146
Schlittmeier, Sabine J. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9051-4547
Article History
Received: 16 January 2024
Accepted: 25 June 2024
First Online: 20 September 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was designed to comply with established guidelines for research involving humans (American Psychological Association, 2017) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR). Approval was obtained from the ethics committee of HSD Hochschule Döpfer (BEth_20_22, decision of May 19, 2022), with no ethical concerns raised.
: All participants gave informed consent for their participation, for adhering to the privacy declaration, and for their data being published in anonymised and aggregated form in a data repository. To avoid bias in the responses, the study aim was more vaguely phrased as gaining insight into users’ reactions to different Instagram messages. In the follow-up questionnaire, participants then received detailed information on the study aims.