Table 1.

Correlations for all study variables.

Variables	Gender	Age	Job Loss	QoL	Hopelessness	Trait EI
Gender	.
Age	0.03	.
Job loss	0.00	−0.14 **	.
QoL	0.07 **	0.00	−0.09 **	.
Hopelessness	−0.01	0.04	0.12 **	−0.38 **	.
Trait EI	0.01	0.09 **	−0.12 **	0.39 **	−0.58 **	.

Note. Gender and Job loss were dummy coded such that 0 = male and 1 = female, and 0 = No changes in employment during the pandemic and 1 = Job loss because of the pandemic, respectively. QoL = Quality of life; Trait EI = Trait emotional intelligence. ** p < 0.01.