Early Social-Emotional Functioning and Public Health: The Relationship Between Kindergarten Social Competence and Future Wellness
Early Social-Emotional Functioning and Public Health: The Relationship Between Kindergarten Social Competence and Future Wellness
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DOI：
10.2105/ajph.2015.302630
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发表时间：
2015-11-01
影响因子：
12.7
通讯作者：
Crowley, Max
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作者：
Jones, Damon E.;Greenberg, Mark;Crowley, Max
目标.我们研究了幼儿园教师对儿童亲社会技能的评价，这是入学时非认知能力的一个指标，是否能预测关键的青少年和成人结果。我们的目标是确定独特的协会以上和其他重要的儿童，家庭和上下文特征。数据来自于对3个城市和1个农村地区低社会经济地位社区的快速通道研究。我们评估了幼儿园的测量结果与13至19年后（1991-2000年）的结果之间的关联。模型包括许多控制变量，代表儿童，家庭和背景的特征，使我们能够探索预测者之间的独特贡献。我们发现，在幼儿园测量的社会情感技能和关键的年轻人的教育，就业，犯罪活动，物质使用和心理健康的多个领域的结果之间的统计学显着关联。幼儿园的社会情感技能的措施可能是有用的，以评估儿童是否在以后的生活中的非认知技能赤字的风险，从而帮助确定那些需要早期干预。这些结果表明，非认知技能在个人和公共健康结果的发展的相关性。
Objectives. We examined whether kindergarten teachers' ratings of children's prosocial skills, an indicator of noncognitive ability at school entry, predict key adolescent and adult outcomes. Our goal was to determine unique associations over and above other important child, family, and contextual characteristics.Methods. Data came from the Fast Track study of low-socioeconomic status neighborhoods in 3 cities and 1 rural setting. We assessed associations between measured outcomes in kindergarten and outcomes 13 to 19 years later (1991-2000). Models included numerous control variables representing characteristics of the child, family, and context, enabling us to explore the unique contributions among predictors.Results. We found statistically significant associations between measured social-emotional skills in kindergarten and key young adult outcomes across multiple domains of education, employment, criminal activity, substance use, and mental health.Conclusions. A kindergarten measure of social-emotional skills may be useful for assessing whether children are at risk for deficits in noncognitive skills later in life and, thus, help identify those in need of early intervention. These results demonstrate the relevance of noncognitive skills in development for personal and public health outcomes.