Fig 1.
Study procedure of the online experiment.
Details on the acceptance outcome and current interest as well as registration rates for two resilience trainings are reported in full length elsewhere.
Fig 2.
Testimonials in the narrative intervention groups in direct comparison.
The texts of the stimulus materials were translated from German to English for publication purposes.
Fig 3.
The participant flow chart for this psychological online experiment was adapted from CONSORT 2010 in conjunction with the recommendations of CONSORT-PSI 2018.
Table 1.
Sample characteristics.
Table 2.
Descriptive data and between-group differences in attitudes towards e-mental health services and online therapies among university students.
Table 3.
Hierarchical multiple regression of information type, perceived stress, perceived similarity and source credibility on attitudes towards e-mental health services for stress coping.
Fig 4.
Mediation effect of perceived similarity in the relationship between targeted testimonials and attitudes towards e-mental health services for stress coping.
Partial mediation effect of perceived similarity in the relationship between the type of targeted testimonials (students versus employees) and attitude towards eMHSs for stress coping (n = 224). CI = 95% confidence interval (95% CI). The effect is defined as significant if the confidence interval does not include the number zero; 5000 bootstrapping samples.