Fig 1.
Summary of the study design including the emotional induction phase, the experimental task and the affective/psychological assessment.
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Fig 2.
Distribution of the standardized movie clips according to the arousal scores and emotional valence categorization (based on the validation study of Maffei and Angrilli, 2019).
Table 1.
Total sample (N = 308) sociodemographic and lifestyle features.
Fig 3.
Gender and induced emotion effect on delay discounting, as measured by the area under the curve (AUC) of the delay discounting task (DDT).
Error bars represent the 95% confidence interval of the mean. *** p < .001; * p < .05.
Fig 4.
Statistically significant gender or induced emotion effects on the affective experience, as measured by (a) arousal, (b) valence and by the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) with (c) its negative (PANAS-N), and (d) positive (PANAS-P) subscales. As well as on the psychological dimensions as measured by Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21) assessing presence of anxiety (DASS-A) (e) and stress (DASS-S) (f). ** p < .005; * p < .05.
Fig 5.
Prevalence of depression (DASS-D), anxiety (DASS-A), and stress (DASS-S) according to the symptoms’ severity.