Relationship Between Socio-emotional Skill and Academic Adjustment Among Adolescents is Mediated by Resilience

Abstract

This study explored the mediating role of resilience on the relationship between socio-emotional skill and academic adjustment among 343 newly admitted first year students in selected secondary schools in Awka, Anambra State Nigeria. Gender of the participants consists of boys (172, 50.1%) and girls (171, 49.9%). Their ages range from 11-14 years (M= 12.7 years, S.D 0.82). Correlational research design was adopted and mediated multiple regression technique available in the Conditional process analysis was used to analyze the data. The correlation results show significant positive relationship among the variables. The mediation results further show that resilience significantly and positively mediated relationship between socio-emotional skill and academic adjustment. Based on the findings and the importance of socio-emotional skills, the researchers recommended that parents and guardians should start equipping socio-emotional skills training from home at infancy stage of human development.