ArticleDepression and anxiety2021
Emotional intelligence training as a protective factor for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Improvements in mindfulness, interoceptive and emotional awareness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal emotion management following completion of an online emotional skills training program.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Trial
- Emotional intelligence as a predictor of mental health in undergraduate students.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- The role of personality traits and emotional intelligence in the evaluation of the benefits and costs of social distancing during a pandemic outbreak.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Psychological Resilience and Hardiness as Protective Factors in the Relationship Between Depression/Anxiety and Well-Being: Exploratory and Confirmatory Evidence.Personality and individual differences · 2024Article
- Editorial: Break the mental health stigma: the role of emotional intelligence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Building a healthy lifestyle: the role of emotional intelligence among Italian university students.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- COVID-19 victimization experience and university students' smartphone addiction: the mediating role of emotional intelligence.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Importance of Soft Skills in Health Sciences Students and Their Repercussion after the COVID-19 Epidemic: Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Relationship of depression with empathy, emotional intelligence, and symptoms of a weakened immune system.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Relationship between emotional intelligence and learning motivation among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A serial mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Development and validation of an online emotional intelligence training program.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Teachers at risk: Depressive symptoms, emotional intelligence, and burnout during COVID-19.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Trends in psychotropic drug consumption among French military personnel during the COVID-19 epidemic.BMC medicine · 2022Article
- Reducing consumer materialism and compulsive buying through emotional intelligence training amongst Lithuanian students.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Does Emotional Intelligence Increase Satisfaction with Life during COVID-19? The Mediating Role of Depression.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Emotional intelligence training as a protective factor for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.Depression and anxiety · 2021Article
- Lower Levels of Directed Exploration and Reflective Thinking Are Associated With Greater Anxiety and Depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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introductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has presented a major challenge to mental health and emotional wellbeing. The present study examined whether training in emotional intelligence (EI) skills, provided before the pandemic, would serve as a protective factor for sustaining mental health during the COVID-19 crisis.
methodsData came from a longitudinal study (N = 89) that was initially designed to test the effectiveness of an EI training program versus a non-emotion-focused placebo program. The design and timing of the study were such that baseline and posttraining assessments of depression and anxiety had been completed before the pandemic, and planned 6-month follow-ups were serendipitously scheduled to occur after the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. This provided us with an unexpected real-world opportunity to investigate whether EI training would bolster emotional resilience to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
resultsAlthough mental health concerns generally increased after the start of the pandemic, individuals who completed the EI training program scored lower on depression, suicidal ideation, and state anxiety relative to individuals who had been assigned to the placebo training program.
conclusionOnline EI training appears to be effective at sustaining critical aspects of mental health during a subsequent real-life crisis.
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