Identifying Social-Emotional Skills Among Elementary School Students in Vietnam: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

A child's or adolescent's social-emotional abilities are crucial as protective components in their overall development since they protect them from a variety of behavioral and mental health problems, including risky conduct and psychological symptoms such as rage, despair, and anxiety. The major purpose of this study was to investigate the social-emotional abilities of Vietnamese elementary school children, specifically their ability to collaborate and empathize with others and the ability to regulate their emotions and solve problems. Students in the 4th and 5th grades completed the 40-item questionnaire, with 562 boys and 764 girls answering the questions in total. As a result of the research, the primary finding indicated that social-emotional skills in elementary school children can be identified, strengthened, and nurtured. These skills enable children to accumulate and apply knowledge effectively to solve problems in life, achieve academic goals and become more empathetic to others, and build and cultivate better relationships with their peers and teachers.

Emotional Skills with Homogeneity Psycho Cognition Strategy: A Study of Physical Education in Elementary Schools

“…The results of this study are consistent with elementary school students in Vietnam being relatively well educated and trained in emotional skills to achieve academic goals and become better citizens. This finding is consistent with previous findings research, which found that families, teachers, and educators pay attention to and improve students' emotional skills competencies, such as collaboration skills, empathy skills, emotion management skills, and problem solving skills, to encourage holistic development of students (Le, Dao, Thi, & City, 2022).…”