The Effect of Social-Emotional Competency on Child Development in Western China.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effects of social-emotional competency on pupils' academic achievement, academic emotions and attitudes, and interpersonal relationships. Participants were 7106 fourth-grade and fifth-grade students in western China. The results were: (1) social-emotional competency positively predicted pupils' academic achievement (including reading, mathematics, and science); (2) social-emotional competency predicted pupils' academic emotions and attitudes, including learning anxiety and interest, and academic emotions and attitudes played a mediating role in the relation between social-emotional competency and academic achievement; and (3) social-emotional competency positively predicted pupils' interpersonal relationships, including peer relationships and teacher-student rel

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6566918 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature