Effects of a Factorial Intervention on Emotional Skills

Wanda Schleder ()
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Wanda Schleder: Johannes-Gutenberg University, Germany

No 2507, Working Papers from Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: non-cognitive skills; emotional skill intervention; factorial experiment; effect sizes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I10 I19 I31 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2025-10-09
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