Game Based Assessment of Emotion-regulation Skills in College Students

The aim of this study will be to investigate the validity of the in-game performance measurements or scores as indicators of students'ER abilities.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Emotion Regulation; Assessment
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: REThink game

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 290
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Romania
  • Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    • Babes-Bolyai University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• first year student at Babes-Bolyai University
• internet and PC access to complete the scales and game

Exclusion Criteria:

• no internet or PC access

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: REThink game; Participants will complete the online standardized scales and then complete the REThink therapeutic game's assessment system in 3D or VR version.

Other: REThink game; The Rethink therapeutic game is an online game developed based on Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy and has two versions: for children and adolescents and for adults. The Rethink therapeutic game for adults is available in 3D and VR version and consists of four levels, each of them training a specific emotion regulation ability such as: emotional awareness, mindfulness, cognitive change

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Mental Health	The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12 by Goldberg &Williams,1988 is a self-report scale measuring mental health on a 6-point Likert scale ranging from 0 "never" to 5 "everyday" where grater scores represents better mental health.	baseline, pre-intervention
Emotion regulation	The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ; Garnefski, Kraaij, & Spinhoven, 2001) is a self-report scale measuring emotion regulation on a 5 point Likert scale ranging from "almost never" to "almost always". It had 9 subscales representing 9 emotion regulation strategies and grater scores represents grater involvement in using that strategy.	baseline, pre-intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
MAAS	Brown, K. W., & Ryan, R. M. (2003). Mindful attention awareness scale. Journal of personality and social psychology The Mindfull Attention Awareness Scale is a 15 items self-report scale, rated on 5 point Likert scale from "almost never" to "almost always", where greater scores represents better mindfulness.	baseline, pre-intervention
Rational and irrational cognition	Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014) is a 24-items self-report scale that measures the presence of rational and irrational cognitions. It has two subscales one for rational cognitions and one for irrational cognitions. Greater scores at each scale represents more rational/irrational cognitions in an individual. Items are rated on a 5 point Liker scale ranging from "totally disagree" to "totally agree".	baseline, pre-intervention
Atention to positive and negative information	Attention to Positive and Negative Information Scale Noguchi, K., Gohm, C. L., & Dalsky, D. J. (2006). Cognitive tendencies of focusing on positive and negative information. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(6), 891-910. It is a self- report scale for measuring the attention to positive or negative information. It is rated on a 5 point Likert scale ranging "not at all" to " completely conform"and it has 29 items. Grater scores at this scale represent more attantion toward a specific type of information-negative or positive.	baseline, pre-intervention
emotional distress	Distress and positive emotions: Profile of Affective Distress Plus; PED Opris & Macavei, 2007 is a self-report scale that measure distress. It had 42 items rated on a 5 point Liker scale ranging from "not al all" to "a lot" and grater scores represent grated level of distress.	baseline, pre-intervention
emotional awareness	The Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ, Rieffe et al., 2008) is a 32-item questionnaire on a three-point Liker scale, from 0 "not true" to 2 "certainly true" where greater scores represents better levels of emotional awareness.	baseline, pre-intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Babes-Bolyai University
• Collaborators: The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 29, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): November 29, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 26, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 7, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): June 9, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): December 6, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 5, 2023
• Last Verified: December 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: mental health; college students; emotion regulation; online therapeutic game; game-based assessment
• Other Study ID Numbers: REThin Academy - assessment

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No