Individual and Class Factors Influencing Students' Social and Emotional Skills

Abstract

Social and emotional skills refer to a series of core competencies related to self-adaptation and social development such as emotional regulation, self-control, achievement motivation, and collaboration with others. Cultivation of students' social and emotional skills is critical to the transformation and upgrading of basic education in the new era. Published in Contemporary Education Sciences, the study uses data of 2,020 students from Beijing and Tianjin as an analysis sample to analyze the effects of individual and class factors on students' social and emotional skills by the two-level HLM, in response to the current public concerns with students' comprehensive education and social development.