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| Relationship among college students' emotional intelligence, meaning in life, and life satisfaction: mediating role of self-esteem |
| GAO Fei, CHI Xiaohui, SONG Xiaofan |
| School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, Shandong Province, China |
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Abstract Objective To explore the relationship among emotional intelligence, meaning in life, and life satisfaction, and the mediating role of selfesteem among them. Methods A total of 670 college students from Jinan completed measures of emotional intelligence scale(EIS), meaning in life questionnaire(MLQ), Rosenberg selfesteem scale(RSES), and adolescent students' life satisfaction scale(ASLSS). Results The female students' scores of meaning in life were significantly higher than those of male students. The freshmen had the highest life satisfaction, while the juniors had the lowest sense of meaning in life. Correlation analysis showed that emotional intelligence, meaning in life, selfesteem, and life satisfaction were significantly positively correlated with each other. Mediating effect test showed that selfesteem partially mediated the relationship between emotional intelligence and life satisfaction, and completely mediated the relationship between meaning in life and life satisfaction, with the mediating effect accounting for 34.62% and 56.00% of the total variance, respectively. Conclusion Emotional intelligence can directly affect life satisfaction, and it can also affect life satisfaction through selfesteem, while the meaning in life affects life satisfaction completely through selfesteem.
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