A Child Version of the EmoSocio Open-Access Emotional Intelligence Model

The development of social and emotional competencies of students is associated with positive impact on their character development, progress on school activities, establishment of qualitative social relationships, overall well-being and health. Similar effects are also noticed at group level, since improvement of such competencies lead to more inclusive and collaborative climate within a classroom. By considering these positive impacts, in the current work we propose some inventories based on an existing open-access Emotional Intelligence (EI) model to make it applicable for the assessment of social and emotional competencies of students. The basis for our work regards the EmoSocio open-access EI model, while three adaptations are provided for different age groups (6–8, 9–12, 13–18 years old). The detailed versions of the EmoSocio inventories are evaluated and validated based on their wide usage within classrooms in a set of schools across Spain. Their usage is based on the application of a methodology for the assessment of social and emotional competencies of students that takes advantage of the adoption of information and communication technologies.