Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 494-501.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.04.13

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The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health in Undergraduates: The Mediating Role of Social Support and the Moderating Role of Mobile Phone Dependence

HE Anming1, BAO Cancan2, HUI Qiuping1   

  1. 1. School of Education Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000;
    2. Student Affair Department, Pingdingshan University, Pingdingshan 467000
  • Published:2020-07-21

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Abstract: In this study, self-reported data were collected from 621 college students. Participants were tested with the Emotional Intelligence Scale, the Symptom Check List 90, Social Support Scale for University Students and the Mobile Phone Addiction Index. All the measures attained good reliability and validity. Descriptive analysis and correlation analysis were used to study the relationship between variables, Hierarchical regression analysis was used to test the mediating and moderating effect. The results indicated that: (1) the mental health was positively correlated with mobile phone dependence, while negatively correlated with emotional intelligence and social support; emotional intelligence was positively correlated with social support;(2) Social support played a partial mediating role between emotional intelligence and mental health. Emotional intelligence can directly affect mental health of college students, but also have an indirect impact on mental health through social support;(3) Mobile phone dependence moderated this mediation effect of social support. For high level of mobile phone dependent college students, with the increase of social support, their mental health symptoms had an obviously downward trend; for low level of mobile phone dependent college students, with the increase of social support, their mental health symptoms had downward trend. That is to say, high level of mobile phone dependence had enhanced the relationship between social support and college students’ mental health, low level of mobile phone dependence had a weakening effect on the relationship between social support and college students’ mental health. The conclusion of the study had positive reference value for improvement of undergraduates’ mental health.

Key words: mental health, emotional intelligence, social support, mobile phone dependence, undergraduates

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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