Social-Emotional Competence as Support for School Readiness: What Is It and How Do We Assess It?

By S. Denham. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Early childhood social and emotional development: Advancing the field of measurement (2016, background): “Greater consensus may help ameliorate the current conceptual clutter exacerbated by measures designed to assess the many different focus areas currently emphasized by researchers (Denham, 2006; Jones et al., this issue).”
Can Early Childhood Curriculum Enhance Social-Emotional Competence in Low-Income Children? A Meta-Analysis of the Educational Effects (2018, background): “Social-emotional competence (SEC) is the integrated functioning of effectiveness in interaction and distinct skills that include the knowledge, identification, regulation, and expression of emotions (Denham, 2006; Fabes, Gaertner, & Popp, 2006).”
Emotion Regulation, Language Ability, and the Stability of Preschool Children's Peer Play Behavior (2009, positive): “Recently, there has been a particular emphasis on the importance of young children’s social competence as an integral aspect of school readiness (Denham, 2006; Ladd, Herald, & Kochel, 2006; Mashburn & Pianta, 2006; Snow, 2006).”
Teacher–child relationship quality: The roles of child temperament and teacher–child interactions (2009, background): “Indeed, children’s abilities to regulate their behavior are key contributors to school “readiness,” and under gird children’s successful social and academic adjustment (Blair, 2002; Denham, 2006).”
Long-Term Relations Between Children’s Language, the Home Literacy Environment, and Socioemotional Development From Ages 3 to 8 (2018, background): “…not only with later socioemotional skills in adolescence but also with life coping skills, school readiness, and later academic success (e.g., Denham, 2006; Ladd, Birch, & Buhs, 1999; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care Research Network, 2004;…”
The Evidence Base for Mental Health Consultation in Early Childhood Settings: Research Synthesis Addressing Staff and Program Outcomes (2008, background): “These early childhood settings are crucial environments for nurturing young children’s social and emotional development (Denham, 2006; Lombardi, 2003).”
The Role of Social-Emotional Learning In Bullying Prevention Efforts (2013, background): “In general, children with higher levels of empathy tend to be less aggressive, better liked, more socially skilled, and more academically successful (Arsenio, Cooperman, & Lover, 2000; Denham, 2006; Izard, 2002).”
Pathways of influence: Chinese parents' expectations, parenting styles, and child social competence (2015, positive): “Empirical research has highlighted the significance of social–emotional competence to children’s school readiness, psychological well-being, and social relationships (Broidy et al., 2003; Denham, 2006; Duncan et al., 2007).”
Effortful Control, Executive Functions, and Education: Bringing Self‐Regulatory and Social‐Emotional Competencies to the Table (2012, background): “School readiness, or ‘‘the state of child competencies at the time of school entry that are important for later success’’ (Snow, 2006, p. 9), includes preacademic and social-emotional competencies (Bierman et al., 2008; Blair, 2002; Denham, 2006; Ladd, Herald, & Kochel, 2006; Raver et al., 2007).”
Examining the link between preschool social-emotional competence and first grade academic achievement: The role of attention skills (2011, result): “These findings support the growing body of empirical evidence that social–emotional skills play an important role in children’s academic success (Denham, 2006; DiPerna, Lei, & Reid, 2007; Howse et al., 2003; Izard et al., 2001; Ladd et al., 1999; Ladd, Kochenderfer, & Coleman, 1996; Ladd,…”
Behavior Problems in Learning Activities and Social Interactions in Head Start Classrooms and Early Reading, Mathematics, and Approaches to Learning (2011, background): “A growing body of early childhood research provides empirical evidence that preschool problem behavior negatively influences school readiness in multiple domains (Bowman, Donovan, & Burns, 2001; Denham, 2006; Raver, 2002; Thompson & Raikes, 2007).”
Emotion and Cognition Processes in Preschool Children (2008, result): “This finding bolsters the recent recommendation that indices of emotional competencies be included in screens for school readiness (Denham, 2006).”
The development of social and emotional competence at school: An integrated model (2020, background): “Abilities include a wide range of social and emotional capacities, but in recent work (e.g., Denham, 2006) these have been distilled into the five CASEL (2013) abilities introduced above.”