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Psychosocial Skills: Essential Components of Development and Achievement in K-12

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Psychosocial Skills and School Systems in the 21st Century

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In this chapter we introduce an organizational framework for our discussion of psychosocial skills, borrowing from the prominent organizational taxonomy of personality, the five-factor model. Using the Big Five as a guide, we identify several psychosocial skills that we feel are important for K-12 students and group them under the trait to which we perceive them to be most highly related. We further divide the Big Five into the three categories of skills we feel are important for students in K-12: performance skills (“getting along with school”), interpersonal skills (“getting along with others”), and self-management skills (“getting along with yourself”). In addition to the Big Five, we conclude with a brief discussion of cross-cultural competence and its possible place within the psychosocial skills framework.

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Burrus, J., Brenneman, M. (2016). Psychosocial Skills: Essential Components of Development and Achievement in K-12. In: Lipnevich, A., Preckel, F., Roberts, R. (eds) Psychosocial Skills and School Systems in the 21st Century. The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28606-8_1

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