Abstract
Research on social and emotional development serves as a guideline to understanding how youth and adolescents can achieve healthy social and emotional skills, and how such skills relate to their well-being. In this study, I investigated social and emotional skill differences based on grade level, and how such social and emotional skills were linked with well-being. The participants sampled included third-12th grade students recruited from two after-school programs (N = 60). Independent samples t-tests were first performed to understand social and emotional skills across the sample by grade level. Then, a series of hierarchical multiple regression analyses (MRA) evaluated how social and emotional competencies are linked to well-being. Groups based on grade level did not differ significantly in their social and emotional competencies. Hierarchical MRAs found significant links among task articulation, peer relationships, and self-regulation and multiple attributes of well-being.