TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jacobs, Ingo
A1  - Wollny, Anna Irena
T1  - Personal values, trait emotional intelligence, and mental health problems
JF  - Scandinavian journal of psychology
N2  - Personal values and personality traits are related yet distinguishable constructs linked to mental health. The present study extends the current literature on personal values and personality traits by investigating the associations between the higher-order dimensions of personal values (i.e., general values factor, conservation, and self-transcendence), trait emotional intelligence (TEI), and mental health problems (i.e., depressive, anxiety, and somatoform syndromes). The study draws on a cross-sectional online sample of N = 618 young German adults. Global TEI and all four TEI factors (i.e., well-being, sociability, emotionality, and self-control) correlated positively with the g-value factor but negatively with conservation. Emotionality was also positively related to self-transcendence. Mental health problems correlated positively with conservation and negatively with the general values factor. When the effects of global TEI were accounted for, conservation but not the general values factor remained significantly related to mental health problems. Global TEI fully mediated the relationship between the g-value factor and mental health problems and partially mediated the association between conservation and mental health problems. The implications of these results are discussed.
KW  - General factor of values
KW  - mental health
KW  - personal values
KW  - trait
KW  - emotional intelligence
KW  - value circle
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12785
SN  - 0036-5564
SN  - 1467-9450
VL  - 63
IS  - 2
SP  - 155
EP  - 163
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jacobs, Ingo
A1  - Wollny, Anna
A1  - Sim, Chu-Won
A1  - Horsch, Antje
T1  - Mindfulness facets, trait emotional intelligence, emotional distress, and multiple health behaviors: A serial two-mediator model
JF  - Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
N2  - In the present study, we tested a serial mindfulness facets-trait emotional intelligence (TEI)-emotional distress-multiple health behaviors mediation model in a sample of N = 427 German-speaking occupational therapists. The mindfulness facets-TEI-emotional distress section of the mediation model revealed partial mediation for the mindfulness facets Act with awareness (Act/Aware) and Accept without judgment (Accept); inconsistent mediation was found for the Describe facet. The serial two-mediator model included three mediational pathways that may link each of the four mindfulness facets with multiple health behaviors. Eight out of 12 indirect effects reached significance and fully mediated the links between Act/Aware and Describe to multiple health behaviors; partial mediation was found for Accept. The mindfulness facet Observe was most relevant for multiple health behaviors, but its relation was not amenable to mediation. Implications of the findings will be discussed.
KW  - Mindfulness
KW  - emotional intelligence
KW  - stress
KW  - health behaviors
KW  - serial mediation
KW  - occupational therapists
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12285
SN  - 0036-5564
SN  - 1467-9450
VL  - 57
SP  - 207
EP  - 214
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -