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Replication: Meaning-centered Intervention for Internalizing Symptoms
Sponsor: University of Groningen
Summary
Young adults who experience depression and/or anxiety symptoms (i.e., internalizing symptoms) will be randomly allocated to a six-session meaning-centered intervention condition or a waitlist condition. Both conditions receive the same questionnaires at baseline, post assessment (intervention condition: immediately after the final session; waitlist: four weeks after baseline), and follow-up. The researchers hypothesize that a meaning-centered intervention for individuals with internalizing symptoms will increase participants' meaning in life and reduce their internalizing symptoms at post assessment and 4-week follow-up when compared to a waitlist condition.
Official title: Testing the Efficacy of a Meaning-centered Intervention for Individuals Who Tend to Feel Down or Anxious: a Replication
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
140
Start Date
2026-10
Completion Date
2028-02
Last Updated
2026-07-20
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Meaning-centered intervention for individuals who tend to feel down or anxious
* Six 1-hour individual online sessions, approximately every 4 days * Sessions led by a certified trainer based on intervention manual * Four sources of meaning will be explored: personal life story, dealing with life's limitations, creating one's own life, and meaningful experiences * Participants follow intervention using intervention the workbook * Homework assignments designed to deepen participants' experience and reflection on meaning in their daily lives