The development of social and emotional abilities of primary school children

This paper aims to identify the progress of social and emotional abilities and resilience to a group of Romanian primary school children after attending the Program Playing the Life. The experimental study was made on 27 subjects in two stages, before and after the program, from children and teacher point of view. The main result refers to the increasing of social and emotional abilities (raw score, T score and category) and their factors (self-regulation, social competence, empathy and responsibility) from self-assessment of children and teachers assessment (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of The Association of Science, Education and Technology