September 14, 2021
by Patricia Tomasi
A new study published in the Journal of Educational Psychology looked at whether emotional diversity is associated with better student engagement and achievement. “Our study explored whether students who have varied emotional experiences would also be more engaged and achieve better in school,” study author Cherry Frondozo told us. “We adapted a measure of diversity from ecology to examine the link between the diversity of emotional experiences and achievement.”
[More]
December 18, 2019
by Elizabeth Pratt
Students with a higher level of emotional intelligence perform better in school than their peers with lower emotional intelligence.
Research published in the Psychological Bulletin found that differences in the emotional intelligence of students is reflected in their results.
[More]
August 26, 2019
by Elizabeth Pratt
The largest mental health survey of US college students to date found that students who identified as gender non-conforming, transgender, nonbinary or genderqueer experience significantly higher rates of mental health problems when compared with their cisgender peers.
[More]
December 7, 2015
by Anne Kip Watson
Most parents naturally want to protect their children from physical and emotional harm. But, have parents taken it too far? Could this good intention now be dismantling this generation of confidence and increasing their fragility?
[More]