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 ## Citation
 
-- Please cite the following preprint, when reusing the data
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 > Henestrosa, A., Anders, G., Ehrhardt, N., Faller, A. C., Hampel, N., Ivan, I.
 > V., Klein, S. H., Luther, T., Prentice, M., Sarigül, B., Utz, S., &
 > Wickelmaier, N. (2026). Longitudinal dataset of psychological variables