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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1517842
This article is part of the Research Topic Emotional Intelligence in Educational Psychology: Enhancing Learning and Development View all 4 articles
How Emotional Intelligence Affects College Teachers' Well-being in China? The Mediating Role of Work-family Support
Provisionally accepted- Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde, Hunan, China
The pursuit of happiness is an individual's goal in life, and an individual's fulfilment in life, work, and psychology are essential dimensions of happiness. Emotional intelligence and work-family climate are important factors affecting individual happiness, but the mechanism of their influence on happiness is not well defined. This paper conducted an empirical study on the relationship between college teachers' emotional intelligence, work-family support and well-being through questionnaires and structural equation modelling methods, and the results showed that (1) there are some differences in the demographic characteristics of college teachers' emotional intelligence, work-family support, and well-being; (2) both college teachers' emotional intelligence and work-family support can positively predict their well-being; (3) College teachers' emotional intelligence positively predicted their work-family support and work-family support partially mediated the relationship between emotional intelligence and well-being. The study reveals the internal mechanism by which the emotional intelligence of college teachers affects their well-being and that improving their emotional intelligence and work-family support atmosphere can help enhance their well-being.
Keywords: Well-being, Emotional Intelligence, work-family support, College teachers, Mediating role
Received: 28 Oct 2024; Accepted: 19 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Lebin, Naseem and Qichao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Sobia Naseem, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde, 415000, Hunan, China
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