Building a healthy lifestyle: the role of Emotional Intelligence among Italian university students

The dataset was used in a cross-sectional study aimed to examine the relationship between EI and selected unhealthy lifestyles, namely alcohol consumption, tobacco use and breakfast among undergraduate university students in Southern Italy. This study took place between the 13th and 28th of February 2023 in a representative sample of the Italian university student of one public university of the Calabria Region. The information is collected through an online questionnaire that is filled in by respondents. The online survey was sent via institutional email. An anonymous and structured questionnaire was used, comprising of four sections. The first section of the questionnaire contained 4 questions to explore demographic characteristics (i.e. gender, age, marital status and degree course) and 1 question about any chronic disease. The EI was measured by the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS) in the second section. The third section investigated tobacco use asking participants if they had smoked at least 100 cigarettes during their lifetime and, among those, the quantity of cigarettes smoked (i.e. daily, someday or not at all). The individuals were classified as non-smokers, former smokers, occasional smokers, or daily smokers, according to CDC definitions All those identified as daily and occasional smokers (current smokers) were directed to complete the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND), a 6-items questionnaire for assessing the compulsion to use and physical nicotine dependence. The fourth section explored unhealthy alcohol consumption. The Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT), a 10-items screening tool, was used to screen for risky or hazardous alcohol consumption. Lastly, the item “How many days a week do you eat breakfast?” was used to assess breakfast skipping. The response options available ranged from 0 to 7 days a week.本数据集应用于一项横断面研究，旨在探究情绪智力（Emotional Intelligence, EI）与选定的不良生活方式——即饮酒、吸烟与早餐习惯——之间的关联，研究对象为意大利南部地区的本科大学生。该研究于2023年2月13日至28日期间开展，样本取自卡拉布里亚大区一所公立大学的意大利大学生代表性群体。研究数据通过受访者填写的在线问卷收集，本次线上调查通过官方邮箱发送。本次研究采用匿名结构化问卷，共分为四个部分。问卷第一部分包含4道题目，用于调研人口统计学特征（性别、年龄、婚姻状况与就读专业），另有1道关于慢性疾病的题目。第二部分采用特质元情绪量表（Trait Meta-Mood Scale, TMMS）对情绪智力进行测量。第三部分针对吸烟行为展开调研：首先询问参与者是否在一生中至少吸食过100支香烟，随后在该群体中进一步调查吸烟频率（即每日吸烟、偶尔吸烟或完全不吸烟）。依据美国疾病控制与预防中心（Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC）的分类标准，研究对象被划分为非吸烟者、既往吸烟者、偶尔吸烟者与每日吸烟者。其中被归类为每日吸烟者与偶尔吸烟者（即当前吸烟者）的参与者，需完成尼古丁依赖检验量表（Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence, FTND）——该量表共包含6个题目，用于评估尼古丁使用成瘾性与躯体依赖程度。第四部分针对不健康饮酒行为展开调研，采用酒精使用障碍识别测试（Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, AUDIT）这一包含10个题目的筛查工具，对存在风险或有害性饮酒行为的个体进行筛查。最后，研究采用题目"您每周有多少天食用早餐？"评估不吃早餐的情况，其可选答案范围为每周0至7天。