Espinosa Adriana, Kadić-Maglajlić Selma
Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, Department of Psychology, The City College of New York, New York, NY, United States.
School of Economics and Business, Department of Marketing, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Front Psychol. 2018 Nov 8;9:2161. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02161. eCollection 2018.
The goals of this study were to identify groups of health-related behaviors among young adults ( = 314, age = 21.94, = 6.53), gauge the relation between emotional intelligence and health behaviors in this population, and assess health consciousness as mediator of said relation. Latent class analysis identified two mutually exclusive health behavior groups, which according to response patterns were labeled as Healthy and Unhealthy. The Healthy group (56%) was composed of individuals who had a healthy diet (i.e., low fat and high fiber), exercised regularly, and who frequently engaged in behaviors that prevent oral and skin-related diseases. In contrast, the Unhealthy group (44%) rarely engaged in these health-promoting behaviors. Using structural equation modeling we found a negative relation between emotional intelligence and unhealthy behaviors relative to health-promoting ones. Mediation analyses indicated that the mechanism explaining said relation was through increments in health consciousness, with large standardized indirect effects ranging between -0.52 and -0.78. As health behaviors during early adulthood are salient predictors of health outcomes in old age, the results have clear implications for the inclusion of emotional intelligence training in programs seeking to raise health awareness and cultivate health promoting behaviors in young adults, in so much as to seek to reduce the risk of chronic ailments later in life.
本研究的目的是确定年轻成年人（n = 314，年龄 = 21.94，标准差 = 6.53）中与健康相关行为的群组，衡量该人群中情商与健康行为之间的关系，并评估健康意识作为上述关系的中介作用。潜在类别分析确定了两个相互排斥的健康行为群组，根据反应模式分别标记为“健康”和“不健康”。“健康”群组（56%）由饮食健康（即低脂高纤维）、定期锻炼且经常采取预防口腔和皮肤相关疾病行为的个体组成。相比之下，“不健康”群组（44%）很少参与这些促进健康的行为。使用结构方程模型，我们发现相对于促进健康的行为，情商与不健康行为之间存在负相关关系。中介分析表明，解释上述关系的机制是通过健康意识的提升，标准化间接效应较大，范围在 -0.52 至 -0.78 之间。由于成年早期的健康行为是老年健康结果的重要预测因素，研究结果对于在旨在提高年轻人健康意识和培养促进健康行为的项目中纳入情商训练具有明确意义，以便降低晚年患慢性疾病的风险。
