Investigating the mediating roles of psychological resilience and digital addiction in the relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health: a meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach.
Level 3 - non-randomized controlled study
Meta-analytic structural equation modeling synthesizing observational and correlational data (graded by design analogy, not clinical CEBM).
PubMed 42272738 · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1780246
What was done
A systematic review and meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) study investigating direct and indirect pathways between emotional intelligence, psychological resilience, digital addiction, and mental health problems in university students. Literature was gathered step-wise from Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. Correlation coefficients synthesized from 257 included studies were used to test structural models.
What was found
The abstract reports no numerical values, effect sizes, path coefficients, or fit statistics. It reports qualitatively that emotional intelligence is associated with mental health problems both directly and indirectly through psychological resilience and digital addiction.
Why it matters
Synthesizes a large body of literature into an integrated structural framework, highlighting psychological resilience and digital addiction as potential intermediary targets in student mental health.
Limits
The abstract omits all numerical values, path estimates, and total participant sample size. Because the underlying synthesized studies are correlational, the findings reflect statistical associations rather than demonstrated causality. The findings are restricted to university student populations.
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