Report on Chinese Adolescence’s Development of Social and Emotional Skills

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2021.09.001

Abstract

Abstract:

This report analyzes the Suzhou data in the SSES main study on 10-year-old and 15-year-old students’ social and emotional skills. The results show that 10-year-old students score higher on all 15 social and emotional skills than 15-year-old students. Among 10-year-old students, girls score higher on cooperation, empathy, sociability, persistence, and tolerance than boys. Except for tolerance, among 15-year-old students, boys score higher on other social and emotional skills than girls. Optimism is by far the most closely related ability to life satisfaction and psychological well-being, followed by energy and trust. Stress resilience and optimism are most closely related to students’ test anxiety. In general, sense of school belonging and teacher-student relationship are positively correlated with all 15 social and emotional skills, in particular with optimism, curiosity and cooperation. In contrast, school bullying is negatively correlated with all 15 social and emotional skills, in particular with emotion regulation (optimism, emotional control and stress resilience).

Key words: Chinese adolescence, social and emotional skills, development, predictors, life outcomes

Zhenguo Yuan, Zhongjing Huang, Jingjuan Li, Jing Zhang. Report on Chinese Adolescence’s Development of Social and Emotional Skills[J]. Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences), 2021, 39(9): 1-32.

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	抽中学生数	学生参试人数（参与率）	家长参试数	教师参试数	校长参试数
10岁组	3800	3647（95.97%）	3606	1400	76
15岁组	3750	3621（96.56%）	3530	2332	75
总计	7550	7268（96.26%）	7136	3732	151

能力	样本量		平均数		标准差
能力	10岁组	15岁组	10岁组	15岁组	10岁组	15岁组
责任感	3631	3611	640.02	580.42	114.73	87.91
毅力	3631	3611	649.76	571.64	109.03	77.94
自控力	3631	3611	612.57	572.69	101.12	77.10
抗压力	3631	3611	524.41	465.19	112.56	88.37
乐观	3631	3611	624.67	558.94	113.55	84.48
情绪控制	3631	3611	595.48	536.40	124.40	82.77
共情	3631	3611	674.57	599.96	113.46	82.47
信任	3631	3611	652.46	575.24	123.53	87.12
合作	3631	3611	674.22	604.33	110.73	83.65
乐群	3631	3611	636.64	572.43	106.52	81.30
果敢	3631	3611	535.84	511.39	83.68	73.00
活力	3631	3611	591.97	526.73	98.93	76.25
包容度	3631	3611	641.96	614.28	109.62	91.94
好奇心	3631	3611	643.88	575.99	100.30	77.32
创造性	3631	3611	635.94	567.38	111.41	87.18

能力	10岁组（N = 3586）		15岁组（N = 3505）
能力	平均数	标准差	平均数	标准差
责任感	565.88	87.92	588.96	93.71
毅力	563.02	81.64	582.50	80.71
自控力	546.82	81.86	575.23	77.57
抗压力	551.01	99.32	555.14	93.91
乐观	596.18	82.89	588.20	80.45
情绪控制	543.03	93.30	562.25	93.81
共情	611.87	98.22	613.61	92.03
信任	636.76	98.96	627.63	93.70
合作	642.74	97.27	638.80	97.70
乐群	607.04	89.13	584.92	79.15
果敢	541.80	79.42	528.60	75.24
活力	573.43	78.09	548.03	72.49
包容度	575.40	87.74	564.03	75.99
好奇心	605.95	89.87	587.72	82.32
创造性	582.70	88.80	568.42	80.49

能力	10岁组（N = 3612）		15岁组（N = 3523）
能力	平均数	标准差	平均数	标准差
责任感	2.62	0.77	2.68	0.58
毅力	2.60	0.90	2.72	0.66
自控力	2.42	0.73	2.48	0.56
抗压力	2.25	0.69	2.10	0.68
乐观	2.76	0.67	2.66	0.57
情绪控制	2.69	0.75	2.61	0.65
共情	2.65	0.70	2.66	0.58
信任	2.72	0.61	2.64	0.53
合作	2.88	0.69	2.84	0.56
乐群	2.77	0.68	2.69	0.60
果敢	2.11	0.85	2.17	0.71
活力	2.52	0.75	2.44	0.64
包容度	2.25	0.80	2.30	0.68
好奇心	2.73	0.79	2.69	0.63
创造性	2.45	0.82	2.49	0.66

能力	女孩（N = 1652）		男孩（N = 1975）
能力	平均数	标准差	平均数	标准差
责任感	649.15	116.35	632.51	112.87
毅力	655.21	110.80	645.32	107.39
自控力	617.44	100.48	608.64	101.48
抗压力	521.40	115.03	527.08	110.39
乐观	628.06	117.42	621.92	110.16
情绪控制	594.34	123.47	596.53	125.18
共情	686.78	112.20	664.39	113.54
信任	654.62	125.32	650.80	122.05
合作	683.59	110.66	666.50	110.28
乐群	642.10	108.44	632.24	104.63
果敢	538.73	82.70	533.49	84.36
活力	587.90	96.08	595.53	101.12
包容度	646.20	109.78	638.53	109.40
好奇心	645.24	101.63	642.93	98.93
创造性	632.64	111.93	638.85	110.95