Social and Emotional Health

What does this mean?

How a child feels about him or herself, levels of self esteem, satisfaction with life, and overall outlook are common elements of social and emotional health. These are often key indicators of a child’s overall health and well-being.

There is a consistent downward trend in children’s social and emotional health from Grade 4 to Grade 7. We can also clearly see that this is more pronounced for boys than for girls.

Social Responsibility

Children’s composite responses to a series of questions that relate to “social responsibility” were used in the study to indicate their overall social awareness and responsibility. Although levels of social responsibility are relatively high, we can also see that they drop consistently as children near Grade 7 and this trend is particularly marked for boys.

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