Review of Social Emotional Competence: Definition, Constructs, and Significance

Abstract

Social emotional competence is a very important predictor of children’s mental health, positive behaviors and development in the coming periods of adolescence and adulthood. Recently, there has been a growing body of research focusing on people’s social competence as well as its long-term effects on development. This paper is to investigate the definition, constructs and significance of social emotional competence in order to provide an overview of related researches and suggestions on further studies.