Learning Environments in Health and Medical Studies: The Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Anxiety and Coping
1.2. Anxiety, Coping, and Emotional Intelligence
1.3. Aims and Hypotheses
- State and trait anxiety are negatively related to emotional intelligence in all its forms (well-being, self-control, emotionality, sociability, and overall trait) and to approach coping strategies (problem-focused coping). Conversely, state and trait anxiety are positively related to avoidance coping strategies (emotion-focused coping).
- All dimensions of emotional intelligence are negatively related to avoidance and positively related to approach coping.
- Finally, emotional intelligence mediates the relationship between state and trait anxiety, and approach and avoidance coping. Figure 1 shows the resulting model.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Ethical Considerations and Data Collection
2.3. Instruments
2.3.1. State and Trait Anxiety
2.3.2. Emotional Intelligence TEIQue-SF (Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire)
2.3.3. Inventory of Coping Responses for Adults (CRI-A)
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Descriptive Statistics
3.2. Structural Equations
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions and Limitations
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Factor | M | SD | Kurtosis |
---|---|---|---|---|
Emotional intelligence | Well-being | 5.37 | −0.948 | 0.568 |
Self-control | 4.42 | −0.858 | −0.147 | |
Emotionality | 5.29 | −0.781 | −0.272 | |
Sociability | 4.52 | −0.823 | 0.268 | |
Overall trait | 5.02 | −0.954 | −248 | |
Anxiety | State anxiety | 0.94 | −0.467 | 0.763 |
Trait anxiety | 1.08 | −0.436 | 0.247 | |
Coping | Approach | 2.87 | −0.377 | −0.113 |
Avoidance | 2.31 | −0.392 | −0.024 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. State anxiety | - | ||||||
2. Trait anxiety | 0.618 ** | - | |||||
3. Well-being | −0.514 ** | −0.708 ** | - | ||||
4. Self-control | −0.385 ** | −0.609 ** | 0.441 ** | - | |||
5. Emotionality | −0.265 ** | −0.454 ** | 0.485 ** | 0.355 ** | - | ||
6. Sociability | −0.189 ** | −0.352 ** | 0.311 ** | 0.225 ** | 0.335 ** | - | |
7. Overall trait | −0.394 ** | −0.626 ** | 0.680 ** | 0.386 ** | 0.516 ** | 0.455 ** | - |
8. Approach strategies | −0.127 ** | −0.246 ** | 0.317 ** | 0.245 ** | 0.285 ** | 0.141 ** | 0.302 ** |
9. Avoidance strategies | 0.133 ** | 0.333 ** | −0.196 ** | −0.305 ** | −0.210 ** | −0.115 * | −0.169 ** |
χ2 | df | RMSEA | SRMR | GFI | AGFI | CFI | TLI |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
14.91 *** | 3 | 0.064 | 0.044 | 0.985 | 0.962 | 0.989 | 0.981 |
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Tur-Porcar, A.M.; Cuartero-Monteagudo, N.; Fernández-Garrido, J. Learning Environments in Health and Medical Studies: The Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4011. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11154011
Tur-Porcar AM, Cuartero-Monteagudo N, Fernández-Garrido J. Learning Environments in Health and Medical Studies: The Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence. Sustainability. 2019; 11(15):4011. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11154011
Chicago/Turabian StyleTur-Porcar, Ana M., Noemí Cuartero-Monteagudo, and Julio Fernández-Garrido. 2019. "Learning Environments in Health and Medical Studies: The Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence" Sustainability 11, no. 15: 4011. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11154011
APA StyleTur-Porcar, A. M., Cuartero-Monteagudo, N., & Fernández-Garrido, J. (2019). Learning Environments in Health and Medical Studies: The Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence. Sustainability, 11(15), 4011. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11154011