Adolescence is a phase of transitions in all the domains of development namely, cognitive, physical, social and emotional. Due to all these changes, adolescents may face many difficulties which create discrepancies in their lives. All these discrepancies have an effect on their learning and well-being but with the amalgamation of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies, negative behaviours like aggression may be prevented or reduced. Therefore, the present study was designed to study the relationship of social-emotional learning with aggression among adolescents. A sample of 500 school going adolescents in the age range of 13-14 years from various government schools of Ludhiana city of Punjab participated in the study. Social Emotional Competence Questionnaire (SECQ) developed by Zhou and Ee (2012) and Aggression Inventory adapted by Sultania (2006) were used to assess social-emotional learning and aggression among adolescents in the present study. The results of the study illustrated that adolescents living in joint families significantly possessed more social-emotional learning competencies while adolescents from nuclear families were significantly more aggressive. Furthermore, correlation analysis emphasized that overall social-emotional learning had significant negative relationship with overall aggression in joint families whereas in nuclear families, overall social-emotional learning was found to have non-significant negative relationship with overall aggression. | An exploratory study on relationship of social-emotional learning with aggression among adolescents
