1. Emotional Competencies in Primary Education as an Essential Factor for Learning and Well-Being
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Josep Gustems Carnicer, Salvador Oriola Requena, Èlia López-Cassà, and Felicidad Barreiro Fernández
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education ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Primary education ,TJ807-830 ,Educació primària ,050109 social psychology ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Competency based education ,TD194-195 ,Renewable energy sources ,Emotional education ,Developmental psychology ,GE1-350 ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Intel·ligència emocional ,Environmental effects of industries and plants ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,05 social sciences ,academic performance ,050301 education ,Competències bàsiques en educació ,Environmental sciences ,Emotional intelligence ,emotional competencies ,primary education ,Scale (social sciences) ,Well-being ,Emotional development ,Psychology ,0503 education ,School learning - Abstract
Numerous contributions corroborate the need to include emotional education and the development of emotional competencies at school to improve students’ school learning and well-being. The present study aims to learn more about the development of emotional competencies in primary school students, taking into account gender differences across different cycles and analyzing the potential link with students’ overall academic performance. Participants were 2389 primary school students (51.2% boys and 48.8% girls), aged from 6 to 12, from 21 public and semi-private schools in Spain. The study is a non-experimental quantitative study, using an ex-post-facto descriptive method. The Emotional Development Questionnaire (CDE 9-13), the Emotional Competencies Observation Scale, and the overall grade point average were applied to the sample. The results show significant differences in favor of girls in the development of most emotional competencies in all three educational cycles. Differences were also observed in academic performance by gender in the primary school cycle, with girls achieving higher grades. At the same time, positive correlations were found between academic performance and emotional competencies. The results confirm the importance of including emotional education in primary education.
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- 2021
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