Implementation of a socio-emotional education program for Primary school students

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https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2020.7.2.7101

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socio-emotional functioning, childhood, intervention, prevention

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School is an ideal context for the development of knowledge other than purely academic learning. Emotional skills and competencies should share educational space with cognitive learning in order to ensure the full development of each student. Our aim was to study changes in the emotional awareness and social competence of children attending a six-weekly session socioemotional educational programme called CODIP-R, which was implemented in a school’s classroom. Participants were 83 first graders (mean age = 6.18 years, SD = 0.42) enrolled in four regular schools in the city of A Coruña. Children were evaluated before and after their participation in CODIP-R using an instrument created ad-hoc. Analyses showed that participants improved their emotional awareness (higher identification of positive and negative emotions, higher emotional self-awareness and higher competence to identify other children's emotional states) and their social competence (higher competence to suggest solutions to interpersonal problems, both their own and between others). These data show that a brief school-based programme may have beneficial effects on children’s emotional awareness and social competence.

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Beatriz Echeverría, Universidade da Coruña

Máster en Psicología aplicada y alumna de doctorado de la Universidade da Coruña. 

Silvia López-Larrosa, Universidad de A Coruña

Área de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Departamento de Psicología. Profesora titular de Universidad. Campos de interés: familia (procesos familiares como conflicto familiar), relación familia-escuela, intervención en el ámbito farmiliar.

Paula María Mendiri Ruiz de Alda, Universidade da Coruña

Profesora titular de Universidad en el departamento de DIDES y MIDE de la Universidade da Coruña.

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2020-12-01

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Echeverría, B., López-Larrosa, S., & Mendiri Ruiz de Alda, P. M. (2020). Implementation of a socio-emotional education program for Primary school students. Revista De Estudios E Investigación En Psicología Y Educación, 7(2), 174–183. https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2020.7.2.7101

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