Adolescent suicide risk factors and the integration of socialemotional skills in school-based prevention programs

Adolescents are considered one of the most vulnerable groups affected by suicide.Rapid changes in adolescents’physical and mental states,as well as in their lives,significantly and undeniably increase the risk of suicide.Psychological,social,family,individual,and environmental factors are important risk factors for suicidal behavior among teenagers and may contribute to suicide risk through various direct,indirect,or combined pathways.Social-emotional learning is considered a powerful intervention measure for addressing the crisis of adolescent suicide.When deliberately cultivated,fostered,and enhanced,selfawareness,self-management,social awareness,interpersonal skills,and responsible decision-making,as the five core competencies of social-emotional learning,can be used to effectively target various risk factors for adolescent suicide and provide necessary mental and interpersonal support.Among numerous suicide intervention methods,school-based interventions based on social-emotional competence have shown great potential in preventing and addressing suicide risk factors in adolescents.The characteristics of school-based interventions based on social-emotional competence,including their appropriateness,necessity,cost-effectiveness,comprehensiveness,and effectiveness,make these interventions an important means of addressing the crisis of adolescent suicide.To further determine the potential of school-based interventions based on social-emotional competence and better address the issue of adolescent suicide,additional financial support should be provided,the combination of socialemotional learning and other suicide prevention programs within schools should be fully leveraged,and cooperation between schools and families,society,and other environments should be maximized.These efforts should be considered future research directions.

The Influence of Preschool Teachers’Social Skills on Job Burnout:A Moderated Mediation Model

Background:Teacher burnout is a serious issue in the field of education,particularly in early childhood education,where teachers face high levels of work stress and emotional labor,leading to emotional exhaustion and job burnout.However,past research has not sufficiently explored the mechanisms of social skills,empathy,and mindfulness in mitigating teacher burnout.Therefore,this study aims to investigate the relationship between preschool teachers’social skills,empathy,and mindfulness with job burnout,in order to provide theoretical basis and practical guidance for reducing teacher burnout.Methods:This research utilized a convenience sampling approach to target preschool teachers for a questionnaire survey.A total of 1109 questionnaires were collected.To ensure the quality of the data,we excluded questionnaires that were not carefully filled out in terms of lie scale questions,those with abnormal demographic variables,and outliers identified based on response time.Ultimately,901 valid questionnaires were obtained,achieving a valid response rate of 81.2%.Participants’levels of social skills,empathy,mindfulness,and job burnout were assessed using the Social Skills Scale(SKS),Empathy Scale(Measure of Empathy,ME),Mindful Attention Awareness Scale(MAAS),and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey(MBI-ES),respectively.Data analysis was conducted using SPSS.Results:After controlling for gender,age,teaching experience,educational level,grade taught,and location of the kindergarten,the study found:(1)There is a negative correlation between preschool teachers’social skills and the level of job burnout(r=−0.238);(2)Empathy has a dual-track effect on job burnout,where cognitive empathy negatively affects job burnout(r=−0.245),while emotional empathy has a positive effect(r=0.045);(3)Cognitive empathy partially mediates the relationship between social skills and job burnout(β=−0.124);(4)Mindfulness significantly impacts social skills,cognitive empathy,and job burnout(r=0.278;r=0.286;r=−0.539),and plays a moderating role in the mediation model(β=0.003;β=−0.023).Conclusion:These findings provide theoretical support for the development of burnout prevention and intervention strategies targeted at preschool teachers.They also point out new directions for future research and potential intervention targets,suggesting that enhancing preschool teachers’social skills and cognitive empathy,as well as increasing their mindfulness level,can help them cope with work-related stress and emotional labor,thereby alleviating job burnout.

The Silent Curriculum:Classical Aesthetics as a Catalyst for Emotional and Social Skills in Higher Vocational Education

This study examines the integration of classical aesthetics into the silent curriculum of higher vocational education,emphasizing its potential to significantly enhance emotional and social skills.Incorporating aesthetic principles into education emphasizes the importance of nurturing emotional intelligence,creativity,and cultural awareness in students-skills that go beyond the classroom and are essential for their growth,adaptability,and future careers.It explores theoretical foundations and practical implementations and addresses challenges such as the need for specialized educator training,overcoming institutional resistance,and securing adequate resources.Advocating for empirical research and strategic cultural partnerships,the paper proposes a transformative approach to vocational education,aligning it with contemporary societal and labor market demands,and underscores the vital role of classical aesthetics in enriching vocational training and enhancing student outcomes.

Improvement in social skills in patients with schizophrenia following 6 months of day-care treatment

Using role-playing tests simulating real-life situations, we investigated improvement in the social skills, especially information processing, of patients with schizophrenia in response to day-care in psychiatry and social skills training. From 20 pair-matched schizophrenia patients, 10 were assigned to a day-care/SST group and 10 to a control group undergoing usual treatment. After 6 months, sending and receiving skills were assessed by means of role-playing tests, psychiatric symptoms, social function, and cognitive function. The day-care/SST group showed a significant improvement and a large effect size in sending skills. Receiving skills also improved, showing a medium effect size, but the difference from the control group was not statistically significant. No statistically significant changes were observed in the other measures. That no changes occurred in social function, psychiatric symptoms, or cognitive function leads to two conclusions: 1) cognition targeted, specialized training and comprehension of cognitive remediation, psychiatric rehabilitation, and social skill development are necessary for improvement in other domains, especially symptoms and social functions;and 2) improvement resulting from day-care in psychiatry and SST alone is limited. In addition, further investigations over a longer observation period and a greater sample size are needed.

A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Social Skills Training and Anger Management on Adjustment of Unsupervised Girl Adolescents

This study aimed at a comparison of the effectiveness of social skills training and anger management on adjustment of unsupervised girl adolescents between 15 - 18 years old in Tehran. This research was an experimental one with plan of pre-test and post-test control groups. The statistical universe of this research was consisted of all unsupervised girl adolescents between 15 - 18 years old in Tehran. The subject was 35 unsupervised girl adolescents who are assigned to two groups: experimental and control group. Data were collected by using the Adjustment Inventory for School Students (AISS). Multivariate analysis of covariance showed that the social skills training and anger management significantly increased social, emotional and educational adjustment on the experimental group (P < 0. 05). But Tukey’s follow-up test showed that there wasn’t significant difference between effectiveness of training anger control on compatibility and effectiveness of training social skills on individuals’ total compatibility. Findings showed that both trainings could be used in the same extent in order to enhance compatibility level.

Effects of music therapy on mood,language,behavior,and social skills in children with autism：A meta-analysis

Objective：To investigate the effects of music therapy on mood,language,behavior,and social skills in children with autism.Methods：A literature search was conducted using the following Chinese databases：the China National Knowledge Infrastructure（CNKI）,Wanfang Data,the Chinese Biomedical Literature（CBM） Database,and the VIP Chinese Science and Technology Periodicals Database.The search terms were ＂autistic children＂ or ＂children with autism＂ and ＂music therapy＂ or ＂music treatment.＂ Studies of randomized controlled trials（RCTs） were included,and each publication included was assessed for quality.A meta-analysis was conducted using RevMan 5.1.Results：Publications were selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria.Six research articles describing RCTs were included;the total sample size was 300 patients.The results of meta-analysis showed that music therapy improved mood[Risk ratio（RR） = 3.02,95%confidence interval（CI）=1.93-4.11,Z=5.45,P〈 0.000 01]and behavior（RR=7.36,95%CI=4.28-10.44,Z=4.69,P=0.00001） in children with autism.Additionally,music therapy improved language（RR=4.05,95%CI=3.38-4.73,Z=11.71,P=0.000 01）,sensory perception（RR=4.62,95%CI=1.55-7.69,Z=2.95,P=0.003）,and social skills（RR=4.66,95%CI=1.90-7.42,Z=3.31,P=0.000 9） in children with autism.Conclusions：Music therapy can improve mood,language,sensory perception,behavior,and social skills in children with autism.

Effects of combination pharmacotherapy and social skills training for schizophrenia: A randomized controlled trial

Pharmaco-psychosocial treatment (PPST) refers to a treatment paradigm combining pharmacotherapy with psychosocial therapy. We conducted an 18-month randomized controlled tracking study to evaluate the efficacy of social skills training (SST) in 11 individuals with schizophrenia on risperidone monotherapy. They were randomized to either SST or non-SST group, and Global Assessment Functioning (GAF) and Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) scores in the 2 groups showed gradual improvement. In the SST group, Digit Span Distraction Test (DSDT) at 12 and 18 months showed significant improvement. The Subjective Deficit Syndrome Scale (SDSS) scores in the SST group showed significant improvement after 6 months and showed a significant difference in comparison between the groups. After the subjective feeling of health was recovered, the items of motivation were recovered as a direct effect of SST. Some items of the Life Assessment Scale for the Mentally Ill (LASMI) score showed significant improvement (or significant trend) in only the SST group after 6 months. Items of daily life, work skills, and self-recognition were continuously improved. We report 2 cases in the SST group that had DSDT improvement in parallel with change of action and communication as a change of social function. This study is only exploratory due to the small number of cases. However, we have demonstrated potential improvement in cognitive function due to learning experiences that required working memory and attention, thus providing improvement in social life.

Social Skills and Behavioral Problems in Adolescents with Child Sexual Abuse, and Their Relation to Basal Cortisol

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a stressful associated with alterations in the hypothalamic-hypophyseal-adrenal (HPA) axis and behavioral problems. Children and adolescents with history of CSA could have higher cortisol levels, as these have been associated with deleterious changes in brain regions involved in controlling social behavior and self-control. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship among basal cortisol levels, social skills and behavioral problems in adolescents with CSA by evaluating two groups: one consisting of 12 - 15-year-old girls with CSA (n = 23), the other healthy comparison adolescents with no history of child abuse (n = 23). Social skills and behavioral problems were assessed using the Social Skills Improvement System. Three saliva samples were collected from each participant. The girls with CSA had lower social skills and more behavioral problems, as well as, higher cortisol concentrations. Besides, these participants showed significant negative correlations among cortisol levels and social skills, as well as, positive correlations with behavioral problems scales. It is feasible to suggest that the social deficiencies observed in these participants with CSA are related to alterations of the HPA.

Online Social Support and Use of SNSs Among College Students Relationship to Online and Offiine Social Skills

The subjects of this study are college students aged between 18 to 26 years old from different majors. Investigated the use intensity and addiction of SNSs among college students, with variables of use behaviors and online social support are relate to their online social skills and offline social skills. Seven point Likert scale, descriptive statistics, One-way ANOVA and logistic regression were used to determine the correlations of different use intensities and levels of addiction. The results explored whether college students＇ online social skills, offline social skills, and online social support are correlated with use intensity and addiction. Long-term or high-frequency use of SNSs does not lead to equivalent social relationships on SNSs, yet addiction to SNSs can reflect the positive support and communication ability of college students in online interpersonal relationships.

Strengthening Social Skills in Students With an Intellectual Disability in Secondary Education

During recent decades, one of education＇s most important issues is the idea of inclusion regarding the students＇ full participation to the mutual school environment. In addition, in the international scientific bibliography, it is stated that children with Intellectual Disability （ID） can integrate socially at school. However, the social benefits of inclusive education cannot always be reached. Studies have shown that just putting students with ID in a common school is not always adequate, as their social abilities are insufficient and because of that interventions are required. In this paper, we will examine school inclusion of students with ID having in mind that it is connected firstly to the modification of educational techniques using a Targeted, Individual, Structured, Integrated Program for Students with Special Educational Needs （TISIPfSENs）. We will focus to the enhancement of their social skills facing school as one of their educational areas inside the community. The results showed that educational interventions that are focused on the enforcement of social skills are a basic priority for the inclusion of students with ID inside the school community.

Common outcome,different pathways:Social informationprocessing deficits in autism spectrum disorder and attentiondeficit/hyperactivity disorder

Social functioning is a key domain of impairment in both autism spectrum disorder(ASD)and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder(ADHD).This review adopts the social information-processing model as the theoretical framework to compare and contrast the deficits of ASD and ADHD at each of the six steps of social information-processing.Both disorders show deficits at each step,but the nature and origins of the deficits are different.Thus,while both disorders exhibit a common outcome of social impairment,the exact pathways that each disorder traverses along the six steps of social information-processing are different.For ASD,there is a social knowledge/behaviour deficit arising from difficulties in social/emotional cue detection,encoding,and interpretation,leading to problems in joining and initiating social interaction.For ADHD,there is a performance deficit incurred by disruption arising from the ADHD symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity,while its acquisition capacity on social knowledge is relatively intact.The inattentive,intrusive,and impulsive behaviours of ADHD unsettle social interaction.Finally,this review proposes training targets for intervention along the six steps of the social information-processing model for ASD and ADHD,as well as areas for future research in further elucidating the social impairment of the two disorders.

Social Competence and Obesity in Teenagers: An Analysis of the Last Ten Years of Studies

Socially competent people using better strategies for solving interpersonal problems are more readily accepted by peers and valued by adults. Obese individuals, especially teenagers, have deficits in several social skills, which lead to damage to the relationships, self-esteem and in their valuation by social agents. This study examines how the literature of the last decade associates the components of social competence to obesity in adolescents. The research was carried out in electronic databases in the period between Jan. 2005 and Dec. 2015, resulting in 329 articles. 303 were excluded as they did not meet the inclusion criteria, and 26 original articles have been analyzed. The results showed that the components of social competence were negatively associated with obesity and most studies focused on self-esteem, pattern of interaction with peers and social relationship. The social competence was highlighted as important for interventions aimed at reducing weight.

Effectiveness of Music Therapy on Social Skill Growth in Educable Intellectual Disability Boys

Social skills include the ability to establish interpersonal relationships with others in a way that is acceptable in terms of norms of society and it should be beneficial to society and have mutual interest. Method: Sample was taken from especial elementary school for educable intellectual disability children in Mashhad, Iran. The sample was boys between 9 - 11 years. After the initial selection of students, they were randomly assigned to two groups of twenty (experimental and control groups). 7 sessions of music therapy were performed for each one in the experimental group whereas no sessions were applied for anyone in the control group. Winelend Social Growth Scale was used to measure their social skill before and after intervention. Result: The mean difference in social skill between the two groups were statistically less than the 0.01 which is highly significant (P-value = 0.0005). This shows that art and music therapy are effective on the growth of social skills in educable intellectual disability children. Conclusion: This research shows that music therapy is effective for improvement of social skills in educable intellectual disability children.

Transmission of walnut-feeding skills from mother to young in wood mice (<i>Apodemus speciosus</i>)

Mammalian feeding behavior is often acquired or improved by learning. Social learners are thought to attain novel information or skills faster and at lower cost than asocial learners. In this study, we examined what types of learning affect the acquisition of efficient feeding behavior by the wood mouse Apodemus speciosus when feeding on large, hard-shelled walnuts. In house cages, na?ve mice acquired an efficient feeding manner during the 14-day conditioning to walnuts, suggesting individual trial-and-error learning contributes to their feeding skills. Social factors such as learning from walnuts that have been opened by other individuals or by observing walnut consumption by proficient conspecifics did not affect the rate of acquisition of efficient feeding. However, weaned offspring could eat walnuts more efficiently and frequently if the mother had been given walnuts during her rearing period. Thus, the skill is likely transmitted between the mother and offspring in addition to individual self-learning.

Social Intelligence in Education: A Mediator Analysis of Attitude

This article reports on a study of social intelligence in education.Authors surveyed approximately 1,188 students in the north of Vietnam to assess levels of social intelligence in education including awareness,attitude,and skills.Independent variables included region and the gender of students.Although there are no region and gender differences in social intelligence,correlations and mediating relationships are found.

体操运动生活化发展的价值意蕴与路径转向

现代竞技体操的发展疏离了体操运动与日常生活的关系,而如何走向生活并助力美好生活实现,需要重新审视体操运动生活化发展的价值意蕴与路径转向。体操运动起源于人类应对自然生活的生存技能的对象性活动,经历了工具性存在到文化性活动的意涵深化,践行了从发展身体能力到审美情感表达,泛化活动到特定运动,提升个体生活能力到生成意义世界的结构转向。当代体操运动的生活化发展不再局限于健康促进的经验性视域,而转向社会生产与文化发展的超验性维度,从作为生活实践的具体手段转向构成生活的世界,实现从器物之道到文化之道的发展方式转型。拓展服务结构、升级服务方式、创新活动形式、增强审美体验、强化育人价值,推进体操运动进机关、进学校、进社区、进家庭、进企业,实现从健身运动向文化活动的价值延展,是促进我国体操运动发展融入人民美好生活实践的具体路径。

非遗传统技艺传承人“四圈共生”模式论

非遗的传统技艺传承人(以下简称“传承人”)在机械复制时代、后机械复制时代面临不同以往的挑战与机遇,理应探索更多更好的传承传统技艺的方法和理念,而社会共生理论不失为一种发展传承传统技艺的重要理论参照系,即现时代传承人生存于个体无法脱离他者的共生系统之中,基本处在但也不限于处在家庭(家族)共生圈层、族群共生圈层、机械复制共生圈层、网络共生圈层的“四圈共生”里,同时也处在“斥”“补”相应、“危”“机”并存的政治、经济、文化、科技、教育等共生“作用力”之中。倘能发挥诸多关系因子之效能,将会促进传统技艺的传承与发展。

人工智能推动的高技能人才需求与能力结构变迁研究——以人机智能协作的模式差异为视角

人工智能对许多职业产生了明显影响,人机智能协作将成为常态。基于对不同任务类型下人类和当前人工智能技术的优势特征分析,人机智能协作可归纳为智能工具型、协同合作型和重塑补充型三种典型模式。三种模式下的人机分工和协同工作方式差别显著,因此也造成了社会人才需求尤其是高技能应用型人才的需求状况和适应性能力结构要求的巨大差异。智能工具型协作模式下高技能人才的职业能力核心是新型智能化业务实践能力,协同合作型协作模式下的高技能人才的职业能力核心则是以统筹人机智能系统实现职业功能为根本的智能协作能力,重塑补充型协作模式下高技能人才需求则会被人工智能大量替代。

家庭社会经济地位对学生社会与情感能力的影响——成长型思维和学业焦虑的链式中介作用

本研究基于2023年济南参加OECD社会与情感能力测评的数据,聚焦家庭社会经济地位对学生社会与情感能力的影响,并尝试从学生成长型思维和学业焦虑两个视角出发,探讨两个变量在家庭社会经济地位影响学生社会与情感能力的中介机制。研究结果表明:(1)家庭社会经济地位、成长型思维都对学生社会与情感能力产生显著正向影响,学业焦虑对学生社会与情感能力产生显著负向影响;(2)成长型思维发挥着显著正向中介作用,即家庭社会经济地位通过成长型思维的中介作用对学生社会与情感能力产生积极促进作用;(3)学业焦虑作为中介变量呈现显著负向中介效应,表明家庭社会经济地位通过学业焦虑的中介作用对学生社会与情感能力产生不利影响;(4)研究进一步揭示了成长型思维和学业焦虑之间显著正向的链式中介作用,即家庭社会经济地位通过影响学生的成长型思维,进而调节学生的学业焦虑水平,最终对学生社会与情感能力产生综合影响。基于实证结果的讨论,本研究针对学生社会与情感能力发展水平的提升提出三方面建议:一是给予家庭社会经济地位较弱的学生群体更多资源和平台的支持;二是以学校为主阵地,系统建立成长型思维培养的路径机制;三是推进家校联动,共同破解青少年学业焦虑难题。