How Does Social Emotional Development Affect Academic Life?

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Do you know how your Social Emotional Development affects your life? The development of the social and emotional health is essential to have good relationships, an appropriate behavior to success in school. In this work you will recognize what is the impact of Social Emotional Development in students’ life. Your mood and relationships have a lot of advantages and disadvantages in your academic development. Social Emotional affects the way you are going to acquire new knowledge at school and the way you are going to increase your relationships. First of all, your emotions affect your performance and success in school. The knowledge you are going to acquire could be affect or influence by the way you are feeling. Happiness, depression and being reluctant are the emotions that more affect your development. It is more probably that you can learn correctly and acquire more knowledge when you are happy. Your mind is clear and active so you can be more focused in your classes. Also if you are in a happy mood you can increase your grades by doing better homework. “Young children who exhibit healthy social, emotional and behavioral adjustment are more likely to have good academic performance in elementary school”. (Cohen, 2005) (Zero to Three, 2004) In the other hand, depression affects students’ academic …show more content…

It can help them in school and to reach their academic goals. It also gives the students’ self-regulation an important skill that is necessary for good relationships and for a successful learning. The abilities to pay attention and to remember things are also part of this skill. Students with stable Social Emotional Development are more likely to have a better academic level; therefore they could have a better development as human beings. “Social understanding is particularly important because of the social nature of humans and human life, even in early infancy”. (Wellman & Lagattuta

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