Dongil Kim, JeeEun Karin Nam, Changmin Keum
Adolescent Internet gaming addiction and personality characteristics by game genre
PloS one
research consistently linked socialemotional skills important educational life outcomes many children begin school careers however without requisite social emotional skills facilitate learning prompted schools nationwide adopt specific curricula teach students socialemotional skills enable maintain optimal engagement learning process second step one widely disseminated socialemotional learning sel programs however newly revised version never empirically evaluated purpose study conduct randomized controlled trial investigating impact 4th edition second step socialbehavioral outcomes 1year period combined brief training proactive classroom management participants kindergarten 2nd grade students 61 schools 321 teachers 7300 students across six school districts hierarchical models timecondition suggest program main effects teacherreported social behavioral indices small effect sizes majority significant findings moderated effects 8 11 outcome variables indicating interventionproduced significant improvements socialemotional competence behavior children started school year skill deficits relative peers significant findings based teacherreport data highlighting need replication using informants sources data findings provide program validation implications understanding reach sel programs