Effects of emotional intelligence and self-leadership on students’ coping with stress

• Yefei Wang

  Central South University and Hunan University of Chinese Medicine

• Guangrong Xie

  Central South University

• Xilong Cui

  Central South University

We examined the impacts of emotional intelligence and self-leadership on coping with stress, and assessing the mediating roles that positive affect and self-efficacy play in this process. Participants were 575 students at 2 Chinese universities, who completed measures of coping with stress, self-leadership, emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, and positive affect. The structural equation model analysis results indicated that self-efficacy fully mediated the relationship between emotional intelligence and active coping, as we had predicted. Further, self-leadership had a direct effect on active coping. However, positive affect and self-efficacy did not mediate the relationship between self-leadership and coping with stress. Implications are discussed in terms of theoretical contributions and interventions for coping with stress.

1. Yefei Wang, Central South University and Hunan University of Chinese Medicine

   The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, and Hunan University of Chinese Medicine

2. Guangrong Xie, Central South University
   The Second Xiangya Hospital
3. Xilong Cui, Central South University
   The Second Xiangya Hospital

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