Exploring the Structure of Social and Emotional Skills: A Network Psychometrics Approach

• In Event: Supporting Teacher Development for Social and Emotional Learning Implementation

Abstract

Social and emotional skills (SES) contribute to students’ well-being and success. According to the big-five model, the survey of social and emotional skills (SSES) conducted by OECD identified fifteen psychological constructs as the elementary facets of SES. This hierarchical framework of SES may ignore the complex connections among these constructs and obscure the potential central skills. Adopting network analysis implemented by R package qgraph and bootnet, this study estimates the network structure of SES for two cohorts, one 10-year-old sample (N=30937) and one 15-year-old sample (N=29736), based on the public data of SSES. The results reveal that cooperation consistently occupies the most central role in the networks of SES, which indicates the vital target of promoting SES among students.

Authors

• Yonghe TI, University of Hong Kong
  Presenting Author

• Jiangfeng Yang, Zhejiang University
  Non-Presenting Author