READING and FEELING: The effects of a literature-based intervention designed to increase emotional competence in second and third graders

READING and FEELING: The effects of a literature-based intervention designed to increase emotional competence in second and third graders

Emotional competence has an important influence on development in school. We hypothesized that reading and discussing children’s books with emotional content increases children’s emotional competence. To examine this assumption, we developed a literature-based intervention, named READING and FEELING...

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Main Authors: Irina Rosa Kumschick, Luna eBeck, Michael eEid, Georg eWitte, Gisela eKlann-Delius, Winfried eMenninghaus, Isabella eHeuser, Ruediger eSteinlein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
emotional competence
literature-based intervention
emotion understanding and knowledge
second and third graders
after-school care center
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01448/full

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