Welcome!
Welcome to our study “Positive Episodic Future Thinking & Pregnancy Anxiety”. Thank you for your interest in participating in our research project. The online survey “Positive Episodic Future Thinking & Pregnancy Fears” deals with concrete pregnancy-related fears of people in pregnancy and a potential influence of cognitive and episodic mechanisms. The aim is to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying processes.
In this first part of the study, we will ask you to complete some questionnaires. This will take approximately 30 minutes. In a second part of the study, you will be invited to an interview via the video conferencing platform “Microsoft Teams”; here we will ask you to imagine personal events that may occur in the future. You will receive further information on this once the questionnaires have been completed.
Following these first two phases of the experiment, you will be contacted again in the third part of the study to complete further questionnaires online. This will take place up to three times in a period of up to six weeks after the online interview and will take 10 minutes each time. In total, the study takes 90 minutes.
Participation in the study is voluntary. You can end your participation in this study at any time and without giving reasons by closing your browser window, without incurring any disadvantages. Psychology students at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz are entitled to the corresponding Versuchspersonenstunden for the time spent even if the study is terminated prematurely.
The data and personal information collected as part of this study and described above will be treated confidentially. For example, those project members who have personal data through direct contact with you are subject to a duty of confidentiality. Furthermore, the results of the study will be published in anonymized form, i.e. without your data being personally identifiable.
The collection of your personal data described above will be pseudonymized, i.e. your name will not be requested at any point. Your answers and results are initially stored under a personal code word that you have created yourself using a rule and that nobody knows except you. This means that it is not possible for anyone to link your data to your name.
Once data collection is complete, but no later than 01.04.2025, the data will be completely anonymized. Until the data has been completely anonymized, you can request the deletion of the data collected from you. You do not have to tell us your name to do this, just your code word. To create your code word, you will receive the instructions “How do you create your personal code word?” This sheet will remain with you. Please keep it in a safe place so that you can request the deletion of your data at a later date if necessary. Once the data has been completely anonymized, it can no longer be deleted. The data will then be uploaded to a server of the provider “PsychArchive” in a completely anonymized state and will then be available there as a Digital Research Object (DRO) in accordance with the Open Science Agreement.
If you have any questions or complaints regarding data protection, please contact the data protection officer of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Mr. Nils Hammerle, e-mail: datenschutz@uni-mainz.de, phone: +49 6131 39-20065).
The retention period for the completely anonymized data is at least 10 years after data collection.
Participation in the first two parts of the study (duration of approx. 60 minutes) is remunerated for psychology students at Johannes Gutenberg University with an expense allowance of 1 Versuchspersonenstunde. Participation in the third part of the study (completion of online questionnaires at three different times) is additionally remunerated for psychology students at Johannes Gutenberg University with an expense allowance of 0.5 Versuchspersonenstunden.
