Children's ability to direct their attention and behavior to learning tasks provides a
foundation for healthy social and academic development in early schooling. Although an …

Young children's emotional competence—regulation of emotional expressiveness and
experience when necessary, and knowledge of their own and other's emotions—is crucial …

The present study took a meta-analytic approach to investigate whether students'
engagement acts as a mediator in the association between affective teacher–student …

A meta-analytic approach was used to investigate the associations between affective
qualities of teacher–student relationships (TSRs) and students' school engagement and …

Research predicting academic achievement from early academic, attention, and
socioemotional skills has largely focused on elementary school outcomes and rarely …

Starting on positive trajectories at school entry is important for children's later academic
success. Using partial least squares, we sought to specify interrelations among all theory …

Research Findings: Social–emotional learning (SEL) is increasingly becoming an area of
focus for determining children's school readiness and predicting their academic success …

This article reviews the literature on self‐regulation and the development of school
readiness and academic competence in early childhood. It focuses on relations between the …

Emotional intelligence (EI) involves the ability to carry out accurate reasoning about
emotions and the ability to use emotions and emotional knowledge to enhance thought. We …

Remediating deficits and managing disabilities has been a central preoccupation for clinical
psychologists. Positive Psychology, in contrast, is concerned with the enhancement of …