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Beary's GEM Project: Emotion Regulation Flexibility Among College Students

a study on Emotional Regulation

Summary

Eligibility
for people ages 18 years and up (full criteria)
Healthy Volunteers
healthy people welcome
Dates
study started
study ends around
Principal Investigator
by Wenqi Zhang (uci)

Description

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate a single-session intervention program on emotion regulation flexibility in college students. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of the digital single-session intervention program in improving emotion regulation flexibility among college students.
  • To examine the effectiveness of the intervention in supporting well-being, including psychological distress and subjective well-being.
  • To examine the acceptability and utility of the emotion regulation flexibility single-session intervention program.
  • To explore participants' personal understanding of emotion regulation flexibility and the experience of intervention through semi-structured interviews.

Researchers will compare the experimental group (Beary's GEM program) and the active control group (Sharing Feelings Project) to answer the first two research questions.

Participants will

  • Be randomly assigned and complete a digital single-session intervention
  • Complete pre- and post-intervention questionnaires on emotion regulation flexibility and well-being
  • Have a video chat with a researcher (optional)

Official Title

Understanding and Supporting Emotion Regulation Flexibility Among College Students - Beary's GEM Program

Keywords

Emotion Regulation Flexibility, College Students, Single-session Intervention, Beary's GEM project, Sharing Feelings Project

Eligibility

You can join if…

Open to people ages 18 years and up

  • Age: >=18 and <=25 as of 2026 November
  • To be assigned to the experimental group or the waitlist control group, participants who score below the median (ERFS <= 33) on the 9-item Emotion Regulation Flexibility Scale will be redirected and randomly assigned to a study condition. This decision was made based on a previous study on the emotion regulation flexibility intervention to reduce the ceiling effect. However, all the questionnaire responses (regardless of scores on ERFS) for assessment 1 will be maintained.
  • Able to comprehend and complete the questionnaire and intervention in English

You CAN'T join if...

  • Not within the target age range
  • Participants who had a score greater than 33 on the 9-item Emotion Regulation Flexibility Scale will not be assigned to a study condition after completing assessment 1.
  • Not able to comprehend and complete the questionnaire in English

Lead Scientist at University of California Health

Details

Status
not yet accepting patients
Start Date
Completion Date
(estimated)
Sponsor
University of California, Irvine
ID
NCT07926919
Study Type
Interventional
Participants
Expecting 700 study participants
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