Break the Mental Health Stigma: The Role of Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence involves a person's ability to perceive, interpret, demonstrate, control, evaluate, and use emotions. It has been considered that individuals with higher emotional intelligence are associated with being less likely to stigmatize mental health disorders. Stigma can lead people living with mental health disorders to avoid seeking help. This in turn can result in difficulties with personal relationships, increased risk of depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and suicidal thoughts.



This Research Topic aims to showcase evidence on how emotional intelligence is associated with stigma towards mental health disorders, in the hope that the research presented will translate to best practice applications in clinical, public health, and policy settings.



We invite researchers to submit a range of articles including but not limited to original research articles, reviews, meta-analyses, opinions, perspectives, and case reports to provide new evidence on the following:



- Harmful impacts of stigma on people living with mental health disorders

- Improving emotional intelligence as an intervention to combat mental health stigma

- Evidence of emotional intelligence in self-stigma and stigma toward others living with mental health disorders

- Interventions in raising awareness for stigma towards those living with mental health disorders

Keywords: stigma, awareness, mental health stigma, emotional intelligence

Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.