Table 1.

Inclusion criteria.

General	PSS-10 score > 13
	Age between 18 and 35 years
	Body mass index between 18.5 and 30 kg/m2
	Self-identifying as male or female
	Fluency in speaking German
	No shift work
Mental and somatic disorders	No acute depressive episode and no depressive disorder with less than 5 years of remission
	No alcohol abuse in the past 6 months
	No substance abuse or substance-related addictions
	No eating disorders in the past 5 years
	No lifetime bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder, borderline personality disorder
	No other current mental disorders
	No chronic somatic disorders
	No intake of psychotropic drugs
Music-related aspects	No perfect pitch
	No music-related studies (i.e., university-level education) or profession
	No impairment of hearing capability
Lifestyle aspects	Smoking ≤7 cigarettes per week
	No drug consumption (except for alcohol/cannabis) during the past year
	No cannabis consumption in the past 2 weeks
	No regular practice of relaxation techniques (yoga, meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, autogenic training)
Menstrual cycle/Pregnancy	No pregnancy/current breastfeeding
	Regular menstrual cycle
	No hormonal contraception
	No premenstrual syndrome

Information on inclusion criteria was based on participant self-report unless otherwise indicated. Cut-off scores for the PSS-10 (German 10-item version of the Perceived Stress Scale, Klein et al., 2016) refer to sex- and age-specific mean norm values of a representative German sample.