Social-Emotional competence: An essential factor for promoting positive adjustment and reducing risk in school children

Child Development

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 408-416

  Domitrovich, Celene E ^a,b   Durlak, Joseph A ^c   Staley, Katharine C ^b   Weissberg, Roger P ^d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MODEL; STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE; SCHOOL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL COMPETENCE;

CHILD; EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT; HUMANS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SKILLS;

EID: 85013471830     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12739     Document Type: Article

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