Pubs and temperament among Lebanese young adults: mediating effects of self-esteem and emotional intelligence.
Our study found a strong correlation between temperament and temperament with a partial mediating effect of self-esteem in this association. Our findings may be a first step in providing media education to families to raise awareness of smartphone use etiquette and developing good media use habits.
Bitar, Z., Hallit, S., Khansa, W. et al. Pubs and temperament among Lebanese young adults: mediating effects of self-esteem and emotional intelligence. BMC Psychol 9, 87 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00594-7
Commentary
The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between temperament and disposition among those people and to evaluate the mediating effect of self-esteem and emotional intelligence quotient, as the widespread use of smartphones and the Internet has raised the issue of addiction. in a cross-sectional study conducted between August and September 2020, 18-29 years old In a cross-sectional study conducted between August and September 2020, 461 participants ranging from 18 to 29 years of age were assessed for poving and self-esteem, emotional intelligence and temperament using Paving's General Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test and TEMPS-M.
The results showed that higher depressive temperament (B = 1.21) was significantly associated with more depression, whereas higher self-esteem (B = - 0.32) was significantly associated with less depression. Regarding the mediating effect, self-esteem partially mediated the association between depressed temperament and depression (21.02%), while emotional intelligence had no mediating effect on the association between temperament and temperament.
The study found that those with high self-esteem were associated with fewer incidences of depression and provided some insight into how they might be exposed to the media, but there were some limitations. However, there were some limitations: it was a cross-sectional study, the cause and effect relationship was unknown, and the participants were primarily single women with college-level education. Other limitations were that some of the questions may have been overestimated or underestimated by the respondents, which may lead to biased information, and that the scale used was not validated in Lebanon.
