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  -