ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Psychopathology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1622626
The sustained effect of 5-week EmotionCore mindfulness training on emotion regulation and emotional intelligence: Heterogeneous benefits for depression and anxiety across subgroups
Provisionally accepted
- 1Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
- 2Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
- 3Changsha Normal College for Preschool Education, Changsha, China
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Background The present study investigated the sustained effects of a 5-week EmotionCore mindfulness training program on emotion regulation, emotional intelligence (EI), trait mindfulness, depression, and anxiety among 120 undergraduates, while exploring the mediating mechanisms of training effect and heterogeneous effects across subgroups. Methods Participants were randomly assigned to a mindfulness group (n=60) or a waitlist control group (n=60), with assessments conducted at baseline (T1), post-training (T2), and one-month follow-up (T3). Results Results demonstrated that mindfulness training significantly enhanced adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (ACERSs), EI, and trait mindfulness at both T2 and T3. Both cross-section and longitudinal mediation models revealed that improvements in ACERSs and EI fully and sequentially mediated the relationship between mindfulness training and trait mindfulness enhancement. Latent Profile Analysis revealed that the high-risk group (high baseline anxiety/depression) exhibited greater reductions in anxiety and depression at T2 and T3 compared to the low-risk group. Conclusion These findings suggest EmotionCore mindfulness training fosters trait mindfulness through improvements in ACERSs and EI, and its targeted efficacy is specifically notable within high-risk populations.
Keywords: EmotionCore mindfulness training, Emotion Regulation, Emotional Intelligence, Mediation analysis, latent profile analysis
Received: 04 May 2025; Accepted: 29 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Kou, Luo, Wang, Wu, Li, Wu, Xiao and Bi. 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: Taiyong Bi, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
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