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Effects of a Factorial Intervention on Emotional Skills

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  • Wanda Schleder

    (Johannes-Gutenberg University, Germany)

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This paper examines the effectiveness of a factorial intervention aimed at improving emotional skills done at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in the winter-semester 2023/2024. The four intervention components, mindfulness, emotional regulation, self-acceptance, and resource activation, were evaluated with respect to their impact on emotional skills and other well-being outcomes. Due to a high dropout rate, no definitive conclusions can be drawn about the optimal composition of training components. However, resource activation shows a significantly positive effect on stress and a depression-related score. The findings also indicate that the Big Five personality traits play a crucial role in determining outcome variables. In addition, several approaches to estimating treatment effects were compared. The results suggest that a regression approach that directly accounts for all intervention factors and baseline scores should be preferred over simpler effect size measures.

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  • Wanda Schleder, 2025. "Effects of a Factorial Intervention on Emotional Skills," Working Papers 2507, Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
    • Handle: RePEc:jgu:wpaper:2507
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    JEL classification:

    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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