Quiet Ego and Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness
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Quiet Ego and Subjective Well‑Being: The Role of Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness Guanyu Liu1 · Linda M. Isbell1 · Bernhard Leidner1 Accepted: 26 October 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract The quiet ego refers to a self-identity that is balanced and growth-oriented in its stance toward the self and others. As a relatively new construct, its validity has been examined in domains related to balance, compassion, and self-control, it has not been examined in other domains that appear to have conceptual overlap such as emotional intelligence (EI), a construct entailing both ability EI (construed as cognitive ability) and trait EI (construed as self-perception). This pre-registered study (N = 300) first examined the quiet ego’s construct validity in the domain of EI using a confirmatory factor analysis approach, and then investigated its associations with subjective well-being and psychological stress from the angle of EI using path models. Results showed that the quiet ego was positively associated with both ability and trait EI, thereby establishing its validity in this domain. Mediation analyses revealed trait EI mediated the relationship between the quiet ego and increased subjective well-being and decreased stress. Serial mediation analyses further revealed that the link between the quiet ego and trait EI was mediated by mindfulness such that the quiet ego transmitted its effects to subjective well-being and stress first via mindfulness and then trait EI. In contrast, there was no evidence that ability EI mediated the relationship between the quiet ego and subjective well-being or stress. Keywords The quiet ego · Emotional intelligence · Ability EI · Trait EI · Subjective wellbeing · Mindfulness
1 Introduction The quiet ego is a self-identity that goes beyond egotism and its immediate, short-term lures to include in one’s self-concept others as well as one’s long-term, eudaemonic wellbeing (Bauer and Wayment 2008; Wayment and Bauer 2017; Wayment et al. 2015a). As
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s1090 2-020-00331-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Guanyu Liu [email protected] 1
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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a compassionate and balanced self-construal, the quiet ego has been shown to be associated with increased subjective well-being and decreased stress (Wayment and Bauer 2018; Wayment et al. 2015a, b; 2016). Mediation analyses further revealed that these relationships were mediated by balance and growth value orientations (Wayment and Bauer 2018), by self-control and self-compassion (Wayment et al. 2016), and by self-control and grit (Wayment and Cavolo 2019). So far researchers have approached the link between the quiet ego and subjective wellbeing from domains related to balance, compassion, and self-control, and in doing so established the quiet ego’s construct
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