Early Social-Emotional Functioning and Public Health: The Relationship Between Kindergarten Social Competence and Future Wellness.

By Damon Jones, Mark T. Greenberg, M. Crowley. American Journal of Public Health, 2015

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Social and Emotional Learning: A Principled Science of Human Development in Context (2019, background): “In a study that originated in an evaluation of an SEL intervention (Fast Track PATHS), Jones, Greenberg, and Crowley (2015) tracked the influence of social competence (e.g., cooperation, conflict resolution, perspective taking) in kindergarten on outcomes at age 25 in a sample of more than 700…”
Universal Interventions: Fully Exploring Their Impacts and Potential to Produce Population-Level Impacts (2017, background): “Yet, recent evidence in education shows that the development of a variety of social-emotional skills, attitudes, and behaviors may lead to long-term cost savings by promoting positive labor market outcomes in adulthood (Heckman & Kautz, 2012; Jones et al., 2015).”
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (2017, background): “between a measure of socio-emotional skills in kindergarten and important young adult outcomes such as employment, earnings, health and criminal activity (Dodge et al. 2014; Jones et al. 2015).”
Social-Emotional Competence: An Essential Factor for Promoting Positive Adjustment and Reducing Risk in School Children. (2017, background): “After accounting for a number of individual and school-level covariates, higher levels of competence were inversely related to receiving public assistance, being involved in criminal activity, and substance use (Jones et al., 2015).”