Abstract
Social-emotional competences are critical for positive development and significantly predict educational and occupational attainment, health, and well-being. There is however a lack of consensus about the number of core competences, and how these are defined and operationalized. This divergence in approach challenges future research as well as the scientific usefulness of the construct. In an effort to create an integrative framework, this focused review evaluates different approaches of conceptualizing and assessing social-emotional competences. Building on shared conceptions, an integrative taxonomy “DOMASEC” is introduced, specifying core domains and manifestations of social-emotional competences that bridge across frameworks focusing on social and emotional learning, personality traits (such as the Big Five) and self-determination theory. Core domains include intrapersonal, interpersonal and task-oriented competencies, differentiating between affective, cognitive, and behavioral manifestations of competences across these domains. It is argued that the integrative taxonomy facilitates the conceptual specification of key constructs, that it helps to better organize the multitude of terms and definitions used, and to guide the conceptualization and operationalization of social-emotional competences and their various facets.
Highlights
Social and emotional competences are increasingly recognized as important predictors of valued life outcomes, such as educational and occupational attainment, health and wellbeing (OECD, 2015)
The aim of the domains and manifestations of socialemotional competences (DOMASEC) taxonomy is to be broad enough to integrate social-emotional competences studied across different disciplines, and to be specific enough to enable the grouping of social-emotional competences according to their core domains and their most central manifestations
The DOMASEC taxonomy is designed to be broad enough to capture key aspects of different sets of constructs, to classify social-emotional competences studied across different disciplines, and to be specific enough to enable the grouping of social-emotional competences according to their core domains and their most central manifestations
Summary
Social and emotional competences are increasingly recognized as important predictors of valued life outcomes, such as educational and occupational attainment, health and wellbeing (OECD, 2015). The DOMASEC taxonomy is designed to be broad enough to capture key aspects of different sets of constructs, to classify social-emotional competences studied across different disciplines, and to be specific enough to enable the grouping of social-emotional competences according to their core domains and their most central manifestations. Linking the DOMASEC specification of core domains to self-determination theories highlights the role of the individual as an active agent in their own development, and the fact that social-emotional competences develop over time, in interaction with significant others and changing contextual influences This in turn, facilitates recommendations for the design of developmentally appropriate interventions aiming to promote the development of social-emotional competences. Future work should focus in more detail on the specification of the different facets of socio-emotional competences, their comprehensive assessment across cultures, and review variations in the manifestation of distinct socio-emotional competences over time to reflect their formation, growth and possible changes
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