Strengthening social skills: developing a social competence intervention for physical education using intervention mapping-protocol paper.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The promotion of social competences using multi-method approaches is an understudied area in education and psychology. This study addresses the gap by developing and presenting a program to enhance social competences using theory-derived program and assessment designs.

Materials and equipment

Bartholomew's Intervention Mapping (IM) approach, initially used for health promotion, was innovatively applied to a psychological and educational context. The development process and implementation challenges are presented in this article.

Methods

The six-step IM process was adapted to create a comprehensive program design that models social behavior, specifically for Physical Education in schools. The program targets perceptive-cognitive, emotional-motivational, an

SUBMITTER: Schuller I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11876426 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature