“…The Mediterranean diet is positively related to some determinants, such as physical activity (Carrillo-López et al, 2021;García-Pérez et al, 2023;Tárraga et al, 2021) and emotional intelligence (Melguizo et al, 2021;Melguizo-Ibáñez et al, 2023b;Sanz-Martín et al, 2023a). Just as diet can bring numerous health benefits (Martínez-González et al, 2019;Martínez-Peláez et al, 2020;Mentella et al, 2019;Morze et al, 2021;Papadaki et al, 2020;Tuttolomondo et al, 2019) and the joint practice of physical activity and development of emotional competence is also beneficial (Melguizo-Ibáñez et al, 2022).…”