A study published in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) found that children’s prosocial skills, built through social emotional learning in Preschool and Kindergarten, predict key successful outcomes for adolescents and adults including education levels, employment stability, and increased mental well being.
Study authors say, “The growing body of literature that demonstrates the importance of noncognitive skills in development should motivate policymakers and program developers to target efforts to improve these skills to young children.”
Results suggest that early social competence is, at the very least, a marker for important long-term outcomes and quite possibly instrumental in influencing other developmental factors that collectively affect the course of a person’s life.
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