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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2021.09.001

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

  • Zhenguo Yuan ,
  • Zhongjing Huang ,
  • Jingjuan Li ,
  • Jing Zhang
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  • 1. Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
    2. Department of Education, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
    3. Suzhou Municipal Education Bureau, Suzhou 215006
    4. Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062

Online published: 2021-08-17

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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

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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 . DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2021.09.001

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