Social-Emotional Learning Profiles of Preschoolers' Early School Success: A Person-Centered Approach.

ABSTRACT: Examined how aspects of social-emotional learning (SEL)-specifically, emotion knowledge, emotional and social behaviors, social problem-solving, and self-regulation-clustered to typify groups of children who differ in terms of their motivation to learn, participation in the classroom, and other indices of early school adjustment and academic success. 275 four-year-old children from private day schools and Head Start were directly assessed and observed in these areas, and preschool and kindergarten teachers provided information on social and academic aspects of their school success. Three groups of children were identified: SEL Risk, SEL Competent-Social/Expressive, and SEL Competent-Restrained. Group members differed on demographic dimensions of gender and center type, and groups differed

SUBMITTER: Denham SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3294380 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature