*2.1. Participants*

A total of 170 female students aged between 18 and 23 years old (mean = 19.8 years, SD = 1.37) with an educational level of 13 years were recruited for this study. All subjects attended the first year for their bachelor's degree in psychology. Inclusion criteria were: Italian language as mother tongue; right-handed [58]; and no history of chronic or acute neurologic, psychiatric, or medical disease. In terms of geographic distribution, all participants came from Campania, a southern Italian region. During the confinement, all participants lived in two-parent families. Among the study sample, nobody was diagnosed with COVID-19. Of the initial 170 participants, 20 students dropped out for personal reasons. The final sample was therefore made up of 150 students.

G\*Power 3.1 [59] was used to calculate the sample size with α = 0.05 and a power = 80%. The analysis indicated that a total sample size of N ≥ 34 was necessary to detect a significant effect in our study. Our final sample comprised 150 students, which is a size well beyond this threshold.
