Online compassion and gratitude training improved leaders' emotion-regulation scores
A small randomized trial found a selective questionnaire improvement after an online program. Other measured emotional skills showed no statistically significant differences in change.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
Leaders assigned to the compassion and gratitude program improved more on the questionnaire's emotion-regulation scale than those waiting for the program. The study did not find statistically significant differences in change for recognizing feelings or expressing them. The result concerns a specific emotional skill, with the size of the improvement unreported.
The sample was small and did not mainly include healthcare professionals. Adherence categories could not support a dose-response analysis, and the abstract provides no effect size or confidence interval.
What researchers found
Emotional Competence Questionnaire emotion-regulation score
Over 4 weeks, the intervention improved more than the wait-list group; the group-by-time interaction was statistically significant.
The primary outcome
Participants practiced loving-kindness meditation and gratitude journaling through a self-directed online program. The primary outcome was regulating their own feelings, assessed before and after the intervention using the Emotional Competence Questionnaire.
Where changes were inconclusive
Recognizing personal feelings, recognizing others' feelings and expressing feelings showed no statistically significant group-by-time interactions. This pattern supports a selective result; it does not demonstrate improvement across emotional intelligence as a whole.
The original publication
A Four-Week Online Compassion and Gratitude Training Programme to Enhance Emotion Regulation: Implications for Stress Management and Healthcare Leadership.
Bock L, Riedel E, Rana M
Healthcare (Basel) · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 41516942
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