What is it about?
Social and emotional competencies play a major role in promoting a climate of positive relationships, responsibility, and a sense of family security; supporting positive behavior; achieving academic growth; contributing to emotional self-regulation; reducing anxiety about social interaction in individuals; reducing psychological stress; promoting optimism; and supporting mental health in individuals; however, there is no consensus on the number of core competencies, and how to identify and activate them. This difference in approach challenges future research, as well as the scientific utility of creating an integrative taxonomy, and focused review evaluates different approaches to visualizing and assessing social and emotional competencies. Based on common concepts, the researchers seek to provide different classifications of social and emotional learning competencies, through which they identify the basic domains and manifestations of social and emotional competencies that link frameworks focused on social and emotional learning (CASEL) and personality traits (such as the Big Five). By presenting these different developments in the classifications of social and emotional learning competencies, the researcher sees better organizing many of the terms and definitions used and directing the perception and activation of social and emotional competencies and their various aspects.
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Why is it important?
The importance of this study lies in the absence of consensus on classifications of social and emotional learning competencies, as well as the scientific usefulness of creating an integrative classification, and the focused review evaluates different methods of visualizing and assessing social and emotional competencies. Based on common concepts, the researchers worked to provide different classifications of social and emotional learning competencies, identifying the basic domains and manifestations of social and emotional competencies that link frameworks focused on social and emotional learning (CASEL) and personality traits (such as the Big Five).
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I hope this article makes what people might think of a boring and somewhat abstract field like social and emotional learning competencies kind of interesting and maybe exciting. Because the comparative method that we present to the reader, to present these different classifications of social and emotional learning competencies, and the proposed perception of researchers that we worked on concluding may change the stereotype about social and emotional learning competencies, as well as this study is an encouragement to support this new trend towards the study of social and emotional learning competencies in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and the Arab world, being one of the first researchers who were interested in this field at the level of the Arab world.
Dr. Ali Said Al Matari
A'sharqiyah Universirty
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This page is a summary of: Recent Developments and Different Perspectives on Social and Emotional Competency Classifications: A Comparative Study, Gulf Education and Social Policy Review (GESPR), July 2024, Knowledge E,
DOI: 10.18502/gespr.v5i1.16594.
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