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Article History

Received: 25 June 2024

Accepted: 23 June 2025

First Online: 12 July 2025

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: The research reported in this article was conducted following the ethical guidelines of Business School of Central South University. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of Business School of Central South University on April 19, 2022. There was no specific approval number attached to the approval. It adheres strictly to ethical standards aimed at safeguarding the rights of human participants, including privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, dignity, protection, and voluntary participation. All processes and procedures followed in this research align with the ethical principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki (1964). This approval covers every aspect of the study, such as participant recruitment, data collection and analysis, informed consent procedures, and measures to ensure confidentiality, as specified in the approved protocol.

: Data collection commenced in April 2022, with all participants giving implied informed consent through an online process prior to their involvement. The research team conducted the sessions throughout April 2022, ensuring that ethical standards were strictly followed and informed consent was obtained at the outset of each session. They were presented with detailed information about key aspects of the research, including: (1) confidentiality, which ensured that personal information would remain private and would not be disclosed or published, and (2) data usage, specifying that all collected data would solely serve academic research purposes without any commercial applications. To participate in the study, participants were required to indicate their understanding and agreement by clicking the “agree and continue” button, which granted them access to the questionnaires.