This article is a correction to:
From Deficits in Emotional Intelligence to Eating Disorder Symptoms: A Sequential Path Analysis Approach Through Self-Esteem and Anxiety
María Angeles Peláez-Fernández
Juana Romero-Mesa
Natalio Extremera- Department of Social Psychology, Social Work, Social Anthropology, and East Asian Studies, Faculty of Psychology, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
A Corrigendum on
From Deficits in Emotional Intelligence to Eating Disorder Symptoms: A Sequential Path Analysis Approach Through Self-Esteem and Anxiety
by Peláez-Fernández, M. A., Romero-Mesa, J., and Extremera, N. (2021). Front. Psychol. 12:713070. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713070
In the original article, there was a mistake in Hypothesis 3 and in the Discussion.
In Introduction, Purpose of the Present Research, Hypothesis 3 (Sequential mediation), the word “depression” should be replaced by “ED symptomatology”. The corrected paragraph is shown below.
Hypothesis 3. (Sequential mediation). Self-esteem and anxiety might serve as mediators in a sequential mediation model between EI and ED symptoms; that is, EI positively predicts self-esteem, leading to lower levels of anxiety, further decreasing ED symptomatology.
Similarly, in Discussion, Paragraph 2, the word “depression” should also be replaced by “ED symptomatology”. The corrected paragraph is shown below.
The results of path analyses showed that self-esteem and anxiety play a fully sequential mediating role between EI and ED symptomatology, suggesting that EI was positively linked to higher self-esteem and lower anxiety, which in turn predicted lower levels of ED symptoms. The findings support the notion that EI decreases ED symptoms indirectly, suggesting that higher self-esteem and decreased anxiety may be possible underlying mechanisms through which emotional abilities contribute to reducing ED symptoms. These results are consistent with previous studies that found a mediating role for anxiety in the relationship between EI and ED (Hambrook et al., 2012; Li, 2018). Moreover, the serial mediation was also significant, suggesting that EI is associated with greater self-esteem, which subsequently reduces anxiety, thus predicting lower ED symptoms. These findings agree with previous meta-analytic research corroborating the robust effect of negative feelings of self-worth on anxiety (Sowislo and Orth, 2013). Our results are also consistent with past studies showing that anxiety mediates the role of self-esteem on the development of ED symptoms (Aloi and Segura-García, 2016) and contributes to the current literature by extending our understanding of the mechanism that underlies the linkage of EI and ED symptomatology.
The authors apologize for these errors and state that they do not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: emotional intelligence, eating disorders, anxiety, self-esteem, path analysis
Citation: Peláez-Fernández MA, Romero-Mesa J and Extremera N (2022) Corrigendum: From Deficits in Emotional Intelligence to Eating Disorder Symptoms: A Sequential Path Analysis Approach Through Self-Esteem and Anxiety. Front. Psychol. 13:873073. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.873073
Received: 10 February 2022; Accepted: 18 February 2022;
Published: 17 March 2022.
Edited and reviewed by: Atsushi Oshio, Waseda University, Japan
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*Correspondence: María Angeles Peláez-Fernández, mapelaez@uma.es