Showing papers in "International Journal of Emotional Education in 2022"
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore the lived experiences of adolescent cyber-bystanders who witnessed cyberbullying in the COVID-19 era and find that cyber bullying has various detrimental effects that include educational, psychological, and emotional consequences for those exposed to it.
Abstract: Indications are that cyberstanders can be negatively affected by witnessing cyberbullying incidents and are even more likely than direct victims of cyberbullying to report symptoms of stress. However, cyberbystanders are understudied in the cyberbullying literature because most research predominantly focuses on perpetrators or direct victims of cyberbullying. This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of adolescent cyberbystanders who witnessed cyberbullying in the COVID-19 era. Twenty adolescent cyberbystanders were purposely selected to participate in this study. The qualitative data was analysed using inductive thematic analysis. The findings demonstrated that cyberbullying has various detrimental effects that include educational, psychological, and emotional consequences for those exposed to it. It is recommended that anti-cyberbullying programmes should be incorporated into the curriculum so that teachers and educational psychologists can emphasise the negative impact of cyberbullying on bullies, victims and bystanders. With more awareness of the detrimental consequences of cyberbullying on all parties involved, adolescents may become more competent in respecting people’s rights and privacy within cyberspace.
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TL;DR: In this paper , a systematic review on the potential impact of co-production on the mental health and wellbeing of care leavers is presented, with a focus on the impact of mental wellbeing on care leaver narratives of their experiences.
Abstract: This paper reviews prior applications of co-production principles and their potential impact on the mental health and wellbeing of care leavers. There is minimal research available on care leaver narratives of their experiences and consequent mental health and wellbeing needs. This paper explores the relevance of different, sometimes opposed, approaches to co-production, the knowledge which can be gained about the mental health and wellbeing needs of care leavers, and finally the potential for lifelong learning through co-production with care leavers. A systematic review was selected to draw conclusions about how the method of co-production could improve awareness of and provisions for care leaver mental health and wellbeing. This review included 14 sources with a total of 541 participants. Following a rigorous systematic review on these themes, conclusions were drawn suggesting that co-production involving care experienced individuals, whilst faced with a range of considerations to ensure success, can have largely positive impacts on care leaver mental health and wellbeing and is therefore a recommended methodology.
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TL;DR: In this article , a study was designed to predict participants' perceived sense of classroom community based on their reported enjoyment and anxiety scores, and the role of these two emotion dimensions in predicting perceived sense-of-classroom community is rarely discussed in the literature despite the fact that classroom community serves as a good predictor of learning outcomes.
Abstract: Whereas the role of anxiety and enjoyment in predicting learning outcomes is well documented in the literature, the role of these two emotion dimensions in predicting perceived sense of classroom community is rarely discussed in the literature despite the fact that classroom community serves as a good predictor of learning outcomes. Conducted in a sociocultural context which is under-represented in the international literature, the present study was designed to predict participants’ perceived sense of classroom community based on their reported enjoyment and anxiety scores. A total of 402 senior high school students (male: 153, female: 249) participated in the study. Participants were invited to complete the questionnaires measuring foreign language enjoyment, foreign language anxiety, and perceived sense of classroom community. Multiple regression analysis indicated that foreign language classroom anxiety and enjoyment concurrently explained 39% of the total variance in sense of classroom community. Foreign language enjoyment turned out to be a stronger positive predictor, whereas anxiety was a negative predictor. Both variables were significant predictors for sense of classroom community regardless of gender. Whereas males and females were comparable in terms of perceived sense of classroom community and foreign language enjoyment, females were more anxious than males.
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TL;DR: In this paper , a longitudinal study aimed to analyse what coping strategies 8-and 12-year-old children use in frustrating situations and found that the frequency of physical and verbal aggression and venting increased with age.
Abstract: This longitudinal study aimed to analyse what coping strategies 8- and 12-year-old children use in frustrating situations. The participants were Hungarian students and their teachers. In the first investigation, children were aged 8 (N=52), and then they were re-examined four years later (N=45). Two Likert-type questionnaires (teacher and student versions) were developed and administered in the study. The instruments proved to be highly reliable (Cronbach’s α: .84-.86). The questionnaires enabled the researchers to investigate the following behaviourally observable strategies: physical aggression, verbal aggression, resistance, venting/crying, avoidance, teacher-seeking, peer-seeking, following the norms and following teacher’s instructions. In most frustrating situations, the frequency of physical and verbal aggression and venting increased with age. Both the self and teacher reports indicated that as students grew older, they were less inclined to seek peer or teacher’s help. The correlation between the teacher and self-ratings is weak, particularly in the 12-year-old cohort (p < .05).
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the relationship between alexithymia and depression among university students and how it is mediated by anxiety and found that Alexithymic features DDF and DIF predict depression in the sample but Externally Oriented Thinking (EOT) did not.
Abstract: This study investigated the relationship between alexithymia and depression amongst university students and how it is mediated by anxiety. Data was collected from a sample of university students (n= 74, Men = 41, Women = 33) aged 18 to 25 (Mean = 22.05, SD = .38). The findings revealed a statistically significant gender difference with men being more alexithymic than women. There was a significant positive correlation between the alexithymic subscales difficulty identifying feelings (DDF) and difficulty describing feelings (DIF), depression and anxiety. DDF and DIF along with anxiety predicted depression. Anxiety partially mediated the relationship between DIF and depression but completely mediated the relationship between DDF and depression. Alexithymic features DDF and DIF predict depression in the sample but Externally Oriented Thinking (EOT) did not. Anxiety was found to be an underlying mechanism operating in the between alexithymic features and depression.
TL;DR: Savage and Woloshyn as mentioned in this paper investigated the well-being, perceived stress, and use of coping strategies among 686 K-12 educators and school staff in Canada and found that all educators regardless of their grade or position reported overall lower scores of wellbeing and higher levels of perceived stress when compared to the general population.
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to foreground mental health and wellbeing in education, underlining the need for a more caring education which addresses the social and emotional needs of students. It is becoming more evident than ever before, however, that educators cannot effectively support the social and wellbeing of students, unless their own social and emotional needs are addressed as well. As a result of the increasing evidence on the relationship between students’ and staff’s wellbeing, more attention is being given to the wellbeing of school staff as a prerequisite for quality education. In the first paper in this edition, Savage and Woloshyn (Canada) investigated the well-being, perceived stress, and use of coping strategies amongst 686 K-12 educators’ and school staff in Canada. They found that all educators regardless of their grade or position reported overall lower scores of wellbeing and higher levels of perceived stress when compared to the general population. Maladaptive coping strategies were related to poorer wellbeing and higher levels of stress.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the impact of climate change awareness on undergraduates' beliefs about socio-emotional well-being in Nigeria and found that most undergraduates are aware of climate changes but have little understanding of its origins, effects, and preventive strategies.
Abstract: Students’ living conditions may suffer as a result of climate change. This research examined the impact of climate change awareness on undergraduates’ beliefs about socio-emotional well-being in Nigeria. The total number of undergraduate students in Kwara state made up the study’s population, with the sample size being 589. The Climate Change and Mental Wellbeing Questionnaire (CCMWQ) was used to collect data from randomly selected undergraduate participants for the study. The acquired data was evaluated using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and PPMC at a significance level of 0.05. The results showed that most undergraduates are aware of climate change but have little understanding of its origins, effects, and preventive strategies. The results further revealed that the undergraduates’ level of climate change awareness influences their beliefs about their socio-emotional wellbeing. At different ages, participants’ opinions on how climate change would affect their socio-emotional health varied dramatically. Similarly, a correlation exists between climate change awareness and beliefs about socio-emotional well-being and awareness and attitude towards protecting the environment.
TL;DR: In this paper , a qualitative case study included 42 preservice teachers enrolled in a college of education in Israel, who participated in an online course that employed specific methods for integrating the social-emotional learning component.
Abstract: The goal of this paper is to address the questions of how social-emotional learning [SEL] can be incorporated into online learning and what effect such integration can have on students. The COVID-19 outbreak significantly increased the use of online learning at all levels of education. However, research shows that the online learning experience may contribute to students’ feelings of distancing, alienation, and loneliness. The assumption underlying this study was that these negative feelings are not inherent to the online learning experience; rather, they can be avoided by using online-SEL (“O-SEL”) techniques that integrate SEL into online learning processes. This qualitative case study included 42 preservice teachers enrolled in a college of education in Israel, who participated in an online course that employed specific methods for integrating the SEL component. Analysis of students’ reactions to the course revealed that O-SEL not only improved students’ emotional experience but also enhanced their cognitive learning. These findings strongly suggest that models of online learning should include SEL. Additional research may confirm the positive O-SEL effects on students’ experience and achievements. In this context, the current study introduces the concept of “social emotional presence,” which is necessary for learning and development to take place online.
TL;DR: The Assessment of Children's Emotional Skills-ACES was administered to 255 Spanish 8-to-11-year-old children along with, measures of adjustment and language as discussed by the authors .
Abstract: Emotion knowledge has attracted scientific interest in recent years due to its relevance to children’s adjustment. Although there is some controversy as to its definition and components, the term is often used to describe the set of abilities to process emotional information. We need rigorous tools to assess it in multiple languages and contexts. The Assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills-ACES was administered to 255 Spanish 8-to-11-year-old children along with, measures of adjustment and language. The Spanish ACES confirmed its three-factor structure; emotion recognition in faces, behaviours and situational emotional knowledge, and a second-order factor (i.e., overall emotional knowledge). The validity of this Spanish version of ACES was demonstrated in emotion knowledge relating to receptive vocabulary, age, sex and adjustment, with age, language and sex moderating relations between emotion knowledge and adjustment. The Spanish ACES can contribute to a greater understanding of the development of emotion knowledge in Spanish-speaking children; and help evaluate social and emotional intervention programmes.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the relation among the key intervention targets of social-emotional and character development (SECD) interventions: character virtues, positive purpose, and social emotional learning (SEL).
Abstract: In the current study, we sought to understand relations among the key intervention targets of social-emotional and character development (SECD) interventions: character virtues, Positive Purpose, and social-emotional learning (SEL). Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students (n = 1011, ages 11 to 16, M = 12.94, SD = 1.00) from five urban middle schools in the mid-Atlantic US completed self-report surveys containing measures of five supporting character virtues (diligence, gratitude, forgiveness, future-mindedness, and generosity) and Positive Purpose. Teachers rated students’ social-emotional strengths. Hierarchical regressions found a constellation of five character virtues was associated with Purpose and SEL, thereby providing empirical support for the framework for SECD interventions. Exploratory analyses found higher student-reported virtues were associated with a steeper increase in teacher ratings of SEL for males and White students, compared to female students and students of color. The current study contributes to both SEL and character education research by demonstrating positive associations among SEL, character, and Positive Purpose in the context of mid-Atlantic US urban middle schools. Future directions for research include examining how these SECD intervention targets and relations among them develop over time, the ability of SECD interventions to cultivate these skills and virtues, and how differences in teacher ratings by student race/ethnicity and sex may occur.
TL;DR: This paper analyzed 70 retrospective narratives from young adults about their school life and found that a cohesive and safe school climate was a source of high self-esteem, well-being and a sense of belonging to the school, while peer bullying and the difficulties of teachers in coping with complex situations in the classroom were the most persistent problems in the school atmosphere that young adults recalled as negative.
Abstract: The present paper analyses 70 retrospective narratives from young adults about their school life. It looks for answers to the questions of what people and situations young adults recall as sources of positive or negative feelings and how they (re)construct the impacts of school experiences on their lives as young adults. The analysis found that on one hand a cohesive and safe school climate was a source of high self-esteem, well-being and a sense of belonging to the school, while on the other, peer bullying and the difficulties of teachers in coping with complex situations in the classroom were the most persistent problems in the school atmosphere that the young adults recalled as negative. However, the narrators re-construct some negative past experiences into positives, both individually and collectively
TL;DR: In this article , the authors present the Better Mental Health in Schools: Four Key Principles for Practice in Challenging Times, which takes account of the global difficulties that face us all and shows evidence-based ways in which educators can help children and young people to navigate their way through this difficult time.
Abstract: The theme of the Special Issue is climate change, so this book is particularly relevant to educators. Alison Woolf, author of Better Mental Health in Schools: Four Key Principles for Practice in Challenging Times, takes account of the global difficulties that face us all and shows evidence-based ways in which educators can help children and young people to navigate their way through this difficult time. She shows awareness of the universal social and emotional pressures that all young people in the present century face and explains how these can increase the psychological and behavioural difficulties of individual pupils. As an experienced practitioner, she is aware of the complexity of the task that schools are required to do in fostering positive mental health in their students. However, she indicates the value of a whole-school approach and provides many illustrations of how teachers can enhance their students’ emotional health and well-being while, at the same time, taking care of their own mental health.
TL;DR: A causal comparative study explored K-12 educators' and school staff's self-reported levels of well-being, perceived stress, and use of coping strategies as discussed by the authors , and found that female educators reported significantly higher perceived stress than their male colleagues.
Abstract: This causal comparative study explored K-12 educators’ and school staff’s self-reported levels of well-being, perceived stress, and use of coping strategies. An online survey was administered to 686 educators consisting of teachers, school administrators, professional support staff, administrative support staff and other school staff in a medium-sized schoolboard in Southern Ontario, Canada. The results show that educators reported overall low scores of wellbeing and higher levels of perceived stress as compared to the general population. Female educators reported significantly higher perceived stress than their male colleagues. A k-means cluster analysis of the educators’ coping strategies identified four unique clusters which were significantly different from each other. It was shown that participants in two of the clusters, consisting of approximately 32% of the participants in this study, used maladaptive coping strategies more frequent and that the participants in these two clusters exhibited significantly poorer wellbeing and significantly more perceived stress than their colleagues in the other two clusters. The limitations and practical implications of this study are discussed.