Table 4.

Examination of the indirect effect of EI on Time 2 suicide risk through psychological distress.

	Total effect model				Indirect effect model
Path	B	SE	t		B	SE	t	BCa 95% CI
Agea	0.05	0.03	1.86		0.06	0.03	2.17*
Gendera	−0.89	0.37	−2.37*		−0.79	0.35	−2.27*
EI – suicide risk (c′)	−0.36	0.21	−1.77
EI – distress (a)	−3.20	0.51	−6.25***
Distress– suicide risk (b)	0.15	0.02	7.09***
EI – suicide risk (c)	−0.85	0.21	−4.09***
EI - distress – suicide risk (ab)					−0.49	0.14		[−0.82, −0.26]
R2	0.07				0.20
F (df)	7.83***(3, 307)				19.37***(4, 306)

EI, Emotional Intelligence; distress, psychological distress symptoms. N = 330 (T1) and 311 (T2). 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. Total 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.

^aAge and sex were covaried.

^**p < 0.01;

^***p < 0.001.