Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
School of Social Sciences, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong.
Int J Psychol. 2019 Aug;54(4):478-486. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12484. Epub 2018 Apr 3.
Past research has often focused on the effects of emotional intelligence and received social support on subjective well-being yet paid limited attention to the effects of provided social support. This study adopted a longitudinal design to examine the sequential mediating effects of provided and received social support on the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and subjective happiness. A total of 214 Hong Kong Chinese undergraduates were asked to complete two assessments with a 6-month interval in between. The results of the sequential mediation analysis indicated that the trait emotional intelligence measured in Time 1 indirectly influenced the level of subjective happiness in Time 2 through a sequential pathway of social support provided for others in Time 1 and social support received from others in Time 2. These findings highlight the importance of trait emotional intelligence and the reciprocal exchanges of social support in the subjective well-being of university students.
过去的研究往往集中在情绪智力和获得的社会支持对主观幸福感的影响上，但对提供的社会支持的影响关注有限。本研究采用纵向设计，考察了提供和获得的社会支持在特质情绪智力与主观幸福感之间关系中的序列中介效应。共有 214 名香港中国本科生被要求在 6 个月的间隔内完成两次评估。序列中介分析的结果表明，在时间 1 测量的特质情绪智力通过在时间 1 为他人提供社会支持和在时间 2 从他人那里获得社会支持的顺序途径，间接地影响了在时间 2 中的主观幸福感水平。这些发现强调了特质情绪智力和社会支持的相互交流在大学生主观幸福感中的重要性。
