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- Title
The impact of social and emotional learning on students' bullying behavior: Serial mediation of social and emotional competence and peer relationship.
- Authors
You, Yushi; Zhang, Siyi; Zhang, Wanying; Mao, Yaqing
- Abstract
Social and emotional learning (SEL) has gradually implemented in Chinese schools and is considered as an effective way to improve students' performance. This research aimed to study the influence of SEL on students' bullying behavior, and the role that social and emotional competence (SEC) and peer relationship play in SEL and students' bullying. The participants were 2049 students in primary and secondary schools in Beijing, China. SEM was used to examine the mediating role of SEC and peer relationship. The study found that SEL can significantly predict students' bullying behavior. In addition, SEC and peer relationship sequentially mediate the relationship between SEL and students' bullying behavior. Practitioner points: Social and emotional learning (SEL) negatively predicted students' bullying behavior.SEL positively predicted students' social and emotional competence (SEC) and peer relationship.Students' SEC and peer relationship sequentially mediated the relationship between SEL and students' bullying behavior.
- Subjects
BEIJING (China); SOCIAL emotional learning; EMOTIONAL competence; SOCIAL skills; SCHOOL bullying; SCHOOL children; BULLYING; SECONDARY school students
- Publication
Psychology in the Schools, 2023, Vol 60, Issue 10, p3694
- ISSN
0033-3085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pits.22947