Table 2.
Indirect effects of Emotional Intelligence (EI) on suicide risk through psychological distress controlling for age and gender.
| Total effect model | Indirect effect model | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Path | B | SE | t | B | SE | t | BCa 95% CI | |
| Agea | 0.01 | 0.01 | 1.24 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 1.65 | ||
| Gendera | 0.11 | 0.24 | 0.48 | 0.19 | 0.23 | 0.82 | ||
| EI – distress (a) | −3.66 | 0.38 | −9.56*** | |||||
| distress – suicide risk (b) | 0.08 | 0.02 | 5.08*** | |||||
| EI – suicide risk (c) | −0.90 | 0.13 | −7.18*** | |||||
| EI – suicide risk (c′) | −0.62 | 0.13 | −4.59*** | |||||
| EI - distress – suicide risk (ab) | −0.28 | 0.08 | [−0.46, −0.15] | |||||
| R2 | 0.11 | 0.16 | ||||||
| F (df) | 17.61*** | (3, 434) | 20.42*** | (4, 433) | ||||
EI, Emotional Intelligence; distress, psychological distress symptoms. N = 438. a, b, c, and c′ represent unstandardized regression coefficients: a, direct association between Emotional Intelligence and suicidal behavior; b, direct association between psychological distress and suicidal behavior; c, total effect between Emotional Intelligence and suicidal behavior (not accounting for psychological distress); c′, direct effect between Emotional Intelligence and suicidal behavior (accounting for psychological distress); ab, indirect effect between Emotional Intelligence and suicidal behavior operating through psychological distress. Full mediation, c is reduced by ab to a non-significant c′; partial mediation, c is reduced by ab, but c′ remains significant; indirect only, ab, but no c and no c' initially. BCa 95% CI, bias corrected and accelerated 95% confidence interval; 5,000 bootstrap samples.
Age and sex were covaried.
p < 0.001.