Table 3.
Phases of experiment 2.a
Condition | General onboarding phase | Prestudy phase (3 days) | Intervention phase (7 days) | Poststudy phase (3 days) | Offboarding phase |
Experimental | Reflection module | Evening survey |
|
Evening survey | Exit survey |
Control | Reflection module | Evening survey |
|
Evening survey | Exit survey |
aThe experiment consisted of five phases: (1) general onboarding, where all participants completed the reflection module; (2) the 3-day preintervention phase, where all participants completed the evening report daily; (3) the 7-day intervention phase, where participants in the control group continued to complete the evening report daily, and in addition to the evening report, participants in the experimental group completed a daily morning practice and were free to use the app to embrace their emotions during the day; (4) the postintervention phase, where all participants completed the evening report daily; and (5) the offboarding phase, where all participants filled out the exit survey and received their payment code.