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Effectiveness of a Social Skills Curriculum on Preschool Prosocial Behavior and Emotion Recognition

Kuebel, Laura A.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9628-7223
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1502050398817235

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2017, Specialist in Education (Ed.S.), University of Dayton, School Psychology.
Preschool children in public school programs are expelled at three times the rate of their K-12 peers. Research demonstrates a decreased emphasis on social-emotional skill development in preschool, despite high incidences of problem behaviors. The present study investigated the effectiveness of a commercially available social skills curriculum on preschoolers’ social-emotional development, specifically their pro-social behaviors and emotion recognition. Results showed that students who participated in the social skills curriculum increased prosocial skills and ability to visually recognize emotions in others. While statistical measures indicate that the intervention did not have a statistically significant impact on student emotion recognition and prosocial behavior, anecdotal reports from participating teachers indicated that the intervention was highly beneficial to participating students. Further, the curriculum had a high level of treatment acceptability by participants’ teachers. Implications regarding social emotional curriculum and preschool students’ prosocial skill and emotion recognition development are provided.
Elana Bernstein (Committee Chair)
Susan Davies (Committee Member)
Joni Baldwin (Committee Member)
68 p.
Curricula; Preschool Education
preschool; social emotional; emotion recognition; prosocial behavior; curriculum

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  • Kuebel, L. A. (2017). Effectiveness of a Social Skills Curriculum on Preschool Prosocial Behavior and Emotion Recognition [Electronic thesis or dissertation, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1502050398817235

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kuebel, Laura . Effectiveness of a Social Skills Curriculum on Preschool Prosocial Behavior and Emotion Recognition. 2017. University of Dayton, Electronic thesis or dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1502050398817235.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kuebel, Laura . "Effectiveness of a Social Skills Curriculum on Preschool Prosocial Behavior and Emotion Recognition." Electronic thesis or dissertation, University of Dayton, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1502050398817235

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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