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Social-Emotional Need Satisfaction and Students' Academic Engagement and Social-Emotional Skills
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Rebecca J. Collie – Educational Psychology, 2024
This investigation examined the role of students' social-emotional need satisfaction in relation to academic engagement and social-emotional skills. Among a sample of 501 secondary school students (and their parents/carers), several need satisfaction variables were examined: perceived social-emotional autonomy, perceived social competence,…
Descriptors: Needs, Satisfaction, Learner Engagement, Secondary School Students
Early Emotional and Communication Functioning Predicting the Academic Trajectories of Refugee Children in Canada
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Gagné, Monique; Janus, Magdalena; Milbrath, Constance; Gadermann, Anne; Guhn, Martin – Educational Psychology, 2018
We examined how emotional and communication functioning at kindergarten predicted the academic trajectories of refugee children. Drawing from a population-based Canadian cohort, the study followed 629 refugee children from age 5 to 13 and (i) modeled kindergarten, Grade 4, and Grade 7 academic trajectories via group-based trajectory modeling and…
Descriptors: Refugees, Emotional Development, Communication Skills, Prediction
A Social-Emotional Pathway to Promoting Math Self-Concept: The Moderating Role of Sex
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Wong, Tracy K. Y.; Konishi, Chiaki; Tao, Lydia – Educational Psychology, 2019
Guided by the school climate and social-emotional learning literature, this study explored math self-concept in relation to student-teacher relationships and students' sense of school belonging while accounting for sex differences. Participants included two random subsamples (Ns = 532; 558) of 15-year-old Canadian students who participated in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Educational Environment, Self Concept
Who Participates? Predicting Student Self-Selection into a Developmental Year in Secondary Education
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Clerkin, Aidan – Educational Psychology, 2018
This study identifies student characteristics that predict participation in Transition Year, an optional developmental year (Grade 10) offered midway through secondary education in Ireland. One thousand eighty five students (51% female; mean age = 15.4 years) completed a questionnaire in Grade 9, providing information on demographic, attitudinal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Secondary School Students, Grade 9
Longitudinal Associations of Student-Teacher Relationships and Behavioural and Emotional Strengths on Academic Achievement
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Sointu, Erkko T.; Savolainen, Hannu; Lappalainen, Kristiina; Lambert, Matthew C. – Educational Psychology, 2017
Positive student-teacher relationships are related to students' academic achievement and behavioural and emotional adjustment. How a student's behavioural and emotional strengths are associated with these relationships and how the relationships influence students' academic performance remains unknown. We examined this framework using a…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Teacher Student Relationship, Emotional Development, Correlation
Emotional Development among Early School-Age Children: Gender Differences in the Role of Problem Behaviours
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Maguire, Lisa K.; Niens, Ulrike; McCann, Mark; Connolly, Paul – Educational Psychology, 2016
There has been an increasing focus on social and emotional development in educational programmes in early childhood as both variables are believed to influence behavioural outcomes in the classroom. However, relationships between social and emotional development and behaviour in early childhood have rarely been explored. This article sets out to…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Emotional Development