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  • Psychology
  • Intervention Science

Background:

  • Writing-based psychological interventions, like self-affirmation, promote adaptive change.
  • Maintaining long-term intervention effects requires effective booster strategies.
  • User-customized computer passwords offer a novel approach for delivering therapeutic messages.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if computer passwords can enhance the effectiveness of a self-affirmation intervention.
  • To assess the impact of self-affirming passwords on the psychological well-being of sexual minority undergraduate students.
  • To explore password usage as a moderator of intervention effects.

Main Methods:

  • Random assignment to either a self-affirmation writing exercise with a self-affirming password or a control condition.
  • Intervention duration of 6 weeks, focusing on password usage as a booster.
  • Measurement of psychological well-being among participants.

Main Results:

  • Password usage frequency moderated the intervention's effect on psychological well-being.
  • Frequent use of self-affirming passwords buffered decreases in psychological well-being.
  • The intervention demonstrated a positive effect, particularly with consistent password engagement.

Conclusions:

  • Computer passwords can serve as a low-cost, low-burden booster for writing-based psychological interventions.
  • Password customization offers a practical method for reinforcing therapeutic messages.
  • This approach shows promise for supporting students, especially during transitional periods like university entry.