Role of Social-Emotional Learning in Development of Cognitive and Behavioural Outcomes of Adolescents
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2020
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
Abstract
The present study explored the role of social-emotional learning in development of cognitive
and behavioural outcomes of adolescents. The sample comprised of 500 adolescents in the
age range of 13-14 years randomly selected from eight government schools of Ludhiana city.
Equal stratification was done across both the gender (250 boys and 250 girls) and family
structure (250 nuclear families and 250 joint families). A Self-structured Personal Information
Sheet, Social Emotional Competence Questionnaire (Zhou & Ee 2012), Problem Solving
Ability Test (Dubey 2005), Pro-social Tendencies Measures- Revised (Carlo et al 2003),
Aggression Inventory (Sultania 2006), Scale of Family Stress, Scale of Social Stress and
Scale of Institutional Stress (Bisht 2005) were used to collect the relevant data. The results
revealed that adolescents living in joint families possessed more social-emotional learning
competencies and encountered more institutional stress, whereas adolescent from nuclear
families displayed more pro-social behaviour and aggression as well as experienced more
family stress. Girls from joint families and overall girls possessed more social-emotional
learning competencies, whereas boys from joint families and overall boys exhibited more prosocial
behaviour. Irrespective of family structure, boys were better problem solver and more
aggressive, while girls experienced more social and institutional stress. Social-emotional
learning had positive correlation with academic achievement in adolescents, adolescents from
joint families and girls. Furthermore, social-emotional learning projected positive correlation
with pro-social behaviour in adolescents from nuclear families and boys. Social-emotional
learning was negatively correlated with aggression, while positively correlated with
institutional stress in adolescents, adolescents from joint families and boys.