Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Measures of children’s proficiency in exploring and expressing their ideas, feelings and creativity.
Sub-domains and proficiencies
Definitions for each of the skills listed above can be found here.
Personal Development -
Children’s understanding of themselves and capacity to take actions to look after themselves.
- Self-esteem
- Self-concept/ sense of self
- Self-care and healthy behaviours
- Safety behaviours
Social Skills -
Children’s proficiency in adapting to and interacting effectively with others in group and one-on-one contexts.
- Theory of mind/ mentalisation
- Empathy
- Relationship skills
- Prosocial behaviour
- Conflict resolution skills
Emotion Skills -
Children’s proficiency in recognising, understanding, and expressing emotions in themselves and others.
- Emotion recognition
- Emotion expression
- Emotion vocabulary
- Emotion understanding
- Emotional regulation
Self-Regulation -
Children’s proficiency in adapting their thoughts, behaviours, and emotions to achieve their goals.
- Emotional regulation
- Behavioural regulation
- Cognitive regulation
- Persistence
- Inhibition
Executive Functioning -
Children's proficiency in using cognitive skills to carry out goal-directed behaviour.
- Meta-cognition
- Cognitive flexibility
- Working memory
- Attention control
- Task initiation
- Persistence
- Inhibition