Search results for "social-emotional competence"
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The Emotion Detectives Game: Supporting the Social-emotional Competence of Young Children
2017
The potential of digital games to enhance learning in different areas of child development has drawn increasing interest amid growing concern about children’s emotional well-being, social-emotional difficulties, and problem behaviors alongside diminishing economic resources for intervention and habilitation. However, digital games designed to promote social-emotional competence are surprisingly scarce. In this chapter, we explore children’s use of the digital game Emotion Detectives (ED), designed to promote children’s acquisition of emotional knowledge skills (e.g., recognizing, appreciating, and understanding emotions and their expressions), prosocial behaviors (e.g., helping, sharing, co…
Using the Storytelling Method to Hear Children’s Perspectives and Promote Their Social-Emotional Competence
2019
This study investigated the use of a playful, narrative, vignette-based method, called Story Magician’s Play Time (SMPT), in supporting children’s social-emotional reasoning and in helping children practice their social skills. We set out to examine (a) in what ways children use SMPT sessions to explore social interaction situations and to practice social skills, and (b) what story content and narrative play behavior during the SMPT sessions reveal about the social-emotional competence of children, in terms of acquisition and performance skills. The data were collected during SMPT storytelling sessions where 5- to 6-year-old children narrated stories of familiar but challenging daily situa…
Access-Awareness-Agency (AAA) Model of Music-Based Social-Emotional Competence (MuSEC)
2019
Social–emotional competence (SEC) is a set of psychological resources, highly relevant for adaptive growth and wellbeing. Music has been argued to support social–emotional skills, yet there is little theoretical consensus about the underlying impact mechanisms and the special nature of music as a medium for SEC. This article presents a theoretical model of music-based SEC that combines research from general SEC models with music-specific literature from music psychology, music education, music therapy, and music for health and wellbeing. The proposed access-awareness-agency (AAA) model defines music-based social–emotional competence (MuSEC) as interplay of embodied access, reflective awaren…
Jauniešu personības iezīmju un sociāli emocionālās kompetences saistība
2021
Bakalaura darba tēma: “Jauniešu personības iezīmju un sociāli emocionālās kompetence saistība.” Pētījuma mērķis bija teorētiski un praktiski izpētīt un noskaidrot personības iezīmju un sociāli emocionālās kompetences savstarpējo saistība jauniešu vecuma grupā. Pētījuma jautājums: vai pastāv statistiski nozīmīgas saistības starp personības iezīmēm un sociāli emocionālo kompetenci jauniešu vecuma grupā? Metode: kvantitatīvais pētījums, kurā piedalījās 50-klašu skolēni no dažiem Latvijas skolām. Pētījuma dalībnieki bija vecumā no 16 līdz 21 gadiem (vidējais vecums M = 18,02 ; SD = 1,07), no tiem 16 (32%) ir zēni un 34 (68%) – meitenes. Izmantotais instruments - “Lielā Piecinieka” aptauja(The B…